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− | [[Wikipedia:dpkg|dpkg]] is a [[package management]] software used among others by Debian operating system. It can be used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages. | + | <code>[[Wikipedia:dpkg|dpkg]]</code> is a [[package management]] software used among others by Debian operating system. It can be used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages. |
New package configurations will append a *.dpkg-old OR *.dpkg-dist. | New package configurations will append a *.dpkg-old OR *.dpkg-dist. |
Revision as of 07:49, 9 December 2019
dpkg
is a package management software used among others by Debian operating system. It can be used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages.
New package configurations will append a *.dpkg-old OR *.dpkg-dist.
Contents
Basic dpkg commands
- Install a .deb package:
dpkg -i filename.deb
- Remove an installed package:
dpkg -r package_name
- Get Information about a package
dpkg -s package_name
(-s status). See also:apt-cache policy package_name
- List of installed packages in your computer can be obtained with:
dpkg -l [optional pattern]
- List files in a package:
dpkg -L package_name
dpkg-query -L package_name
- Find package owner of a file:
dpkg -S `which file_to_search`
(-S Search)
- List content of a package, content can be extracted suing
ar
command:dpkg -c /path/to/package_name.deb
- Get a list of recently installed packages
zcat -f /var/log/dpkg.log* | grep "\ install\ " | sort
- Get a list of recently upgraded packages
zcat -f /var/log/dpkg.log* | grep "\ upgrade\ " | sort
- Get a list of recently installed or upgraded packages
zcat -f /var/log/dpkg.log* | egrep "\ install\ |\ upgrade\ " | sort -nk1
dpkg --configure -a
[1]
Example Outputs of dpkg commands
dpkg -s sysstat
Package: sysstat Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 1336 Maintainer: Robert Luberda <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 11.4.3-2 Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), ucf (>= 2.003), xz-utils, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.0.0) Recommends: cron | cron-daemon Suggests: isag Conffiles: /etc/cron.d/sysstat 455c3c071b6daabb4e4490828975034c /etc/cron.daily/sysstat 19b1317e195208eed1a0bcd68be2e637 /etc/init.d/sysstat 577050178b0105b10118acfe3335de3f /etc/sysstat/sysstat ca4bb64ec3044408fed750d0d3d7769a /etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf fa92b01baa2130e26822c30fb27ac56e Description: system performance tools for Linux The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools: - sar: collects and reports system activity information; - iostat: reports CPU utilization and disk I/O statistics; - tapestat: reports statistics for tapes connected to the system; - mpstat: reports global and per-processor statistics; - pidstat: reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes); - sadf: displays data collected by sar in various formats; - cifsiostat: reports I/O statistics for CIFS filesystems. . The statistics reported by sar deal with I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activities, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported. Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
Activities
Basic
Advanced
- Read
uscan
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/devscripts/uscan.1.en.html and https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch to understand how new packages are generated: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/devscripts/uscan.1.en.html
See Also
apt
, snap and RPM (Linux)- Wikipedia:dpkg
- Wikipedia:APT (Debian)
- w:Deb_(file_format) to understand .deb internal format an included files: preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm.
- pkgutil (MacOS)
- brew (MacOS), command of the Homebrew package management software w:Homebrew (package management software)
- pkg (FreeBSD)
- w:apt-file to view the contents of debian packages on remote repositories
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