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    A friendly update: as of this writing, Debian Stretch (Testing) seems to provide file /usr/share/gnome/gnome-version.xml in package gnome-desktop3-data . To see installation history, on Debian: zgrep " installed" /var/log/dpkg.log* | grep "gnome-desktop3-data" | cut -d':' -f2- | sort -r Commented May 30, 2016 at 18:36
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    @iokevins - possible... but I'm not using debian/ubuntu/derivatives and my post isn't distro-specific: upstream, there is only one package and that is gnome-desktop; some distros may chose to split the package and call the parts whatever. I'll edit my post to be more specific. Commented May 30, 2016 at 19:39
  • I see it now--appreciate the clarification; thank you! Commented Jun 2, 2016 at 21:57
  • here is a bash example using xmlstarlet to query the XML in the files to which @don_crissti points. Commented Feb 7, 2017 at 3:44
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    Thanks, @don_crissti. Here is a Python 3 script to retrieve the info from that XML: gnome-version.py Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 1:45