Dpkg Cheat Sheet.
Dpkg is used to manage software management in debian or to install .deb packages. One can view what packages are installed on the system or get information about a package using dpkg. It is very simple and straight forward. Dpkg is like rpm (redhat package manager ) but used in debian like systems. Here is a small list of useful options that make you life peaceful while dealing with installation of .deb packages.
Dpkg Cheat Sheet.
| Syntax |
Description |
example |
dpkg
-i package-name.deb |
Install
a new package or upgrade an existing package |
dpkg
-i AdobeReader.deb |
| dpkg -r package-name |
remove/delete a package
leaving configuration files |
dpkg -r d4x |
| dpkg -P package-name |
remove/delete a package
and all the configuration files |
dpkg -P d4x |
dpkg
-R directory |
Install
packages from a particular directory recursively. |
dpkr
-R /root/debpackages/ |
| dpkg -l |
lists all packages
installed with description and version information |
dpkg -l
dkpg -l|more
dpkg -l|less
dpkg -l *d4x* |
| dpkg -l package-name |
List individual installed
packages, along with package version,status of the package and short
description. The output format is same as dpkg -l |
dpkg -l d4x |
| dpkg -L package-name |
Lists where the files that
come with the package are installed. |
dpkg
-L d4x |
| dkpg -c package.deb |
List all the files that
are copied or installed in the system with the place where they are
installed |
dpkg -c gimp-1.1_i386.deb |
dpkg
-S /path-to-file |
Lists which package owns
the file. |
dpkg
-S /usr/bin/acroread |
| dpkg -s package-name
or
dpkg -s package| grep Status |
gives the status of the
package and other information like
Package, Status, Priority, Section (category of package),
Installed-Size, Maintainer, Architecture, Version, Dependencies
& Description |
dpkg -s d4x
or
dpkg -s d4x|grep Status |
| dpkg -p package-name |
Gives the information about a package.Package,
Priority, Section (category of package),
Installed-Size, Maintainer, Architecture, Version, Dependencies
&
Description
|
dpkg -p d4x |
Output for dkpg -l|more
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/
Name Version Description
+++-==============-================================-=============================
ii
acpi
0.09-4 displays
information on ACPI devices
ii
acpid
1.0.6-8 Utilities
for using ACPI power management
ii
adduser
3.107 add
and remove users and groups
ii adobereader-enu
8.1.2 Adobe
Reader allows you to view navigate and
ii
alacarte
0.11.3-1 easy
GNOME menu editing tool
ii
alsa-base 1.0.16-1.1
ALSA driver configuration files
ii
alsa-utils 1.0.16-1 ALSA
utilities |
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Output for dpkg -l *d4x*
the output for dpkg -l d4x also will be like below but only
information for d4x package is displayed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/
Name
Version Description
+++-===========-======================-===================================
ii
d4x 2.5.7.1-5 graphical
download manager
ii
d4x-common 2.5.7.1-5 graphical
download manager - common files |
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Output for dpkg -L d4x
will be like
| /.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/pixmaps
/usr/share/pixmaps/nt.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/nt.png
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/ca
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/d4x.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/d4x.mo
/usr/share/locale/de
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/d4x.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/d4x.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES
–More–
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output for dpkg -S
/usr/bin/acroread
adobereader-enu:
/usr/bin/acroread |
output for dpkg
-s d4x
Package: d4x
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 2028
Maintainer: Debian QA Group Architecture: i386
Version: 2.5.7.1-5
Depends:
libao2 (>= 0.8.8), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>=
2.6.1-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0),
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0
(>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.2), libssl0.9.8 (>=
0.9.8f-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>=
1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1),
libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2
(>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, d4x-common (= 2.5.7.1-5)
Description: graphical download manager
Downloader for X is a powerful graphical download manager.
It supports both HTTP(S) and FTP protocols and has nice graphical
user interface, though some actions can also be performed using
the command line.
.
Among others, its key features include proxy and SOCKS5 support,
recursive downloading, wildcard matching, download scheduler,
multiple download queues and more…
.
Homepage: http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
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Output for dpkg -p comix
Package: comix
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1416
Maintainer: Emfox Zhou
Architecture: all
Version: 3.6.4-1.1
Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), python (>= 2.3), python-gtk2 (>= 2.8), python-imaging (>= 1.1.4)
Suggests: libjpeg-progs, unrar
Size: 234988
Description: GTK Comic Book Viewer
Comix is a comic book viewer. It reads zip, rar, tar, tar.gz and
tar.bz2 archives (often called .cbz, .cbr and .cbt) as well as
normal image files. It is written in Python and has a simple user
interface using PyGTK.
.
Main Features:
.
* Fullscreen mode.
* Double page mode.
* Fit-to-screen mode.
* Zooming and scrolling.
* Rotation and mirroring.
* Magnification lens.
* Changeable image scaling quality.
* Image enhancement.
* Can read right-to-left to fit manga etc.
* Caching for faster page flipping.
* Bookmarks support.
* Customizable GUI.
* Archive comments support.
* Archive converter.
* Thumbnail browser.
* Standards compliant.
* Translated to English, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish,
Brazilian Portuguese and German.
* Reads the JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, ICO, XPM and XBM image formats.
* Reads ZIP and tar archives natively, and RAR archives through the unrar
program.
* Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and virtually any other UNIX-like OS.
* More!
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