dpkg-deb -c $dpkg | less
install packages
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_7.0.8-0.0_i386.deb
Or extract it to a foo dir.
dpkg-deb -x <package> foo/
removing packages
completely remove, including left overs
dpkg --purge gdm
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% agr exim4-base exim4-config Package exim4-base is not installed, so not removed Package exim4-config is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. % dpkg --purge exim4-base exim4-config Removing exim4-base ... Purging configuration files for exim4-base ... Removing exim4-config ... Purging configuration files for exim4-config ...
completely remove all left overs
Having done removing and adding packages, a good way to clean up is by typing this
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2} ' | xargs -t dpkg -P
remove all of KDE packages
apt-get remove libarts1
remove packages despite of dependencies
dpkg --force-depends --purge dselect
hold a Debian package not to install
echo $package hold | dpkg --set-selections
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this will not work for aptitude. For aptitude, use aptitude's own holding mechanism instead. |
package listing
$ dpkg -l wget Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description ii wget 1.5.3-3 utility to retrieve files from the WWW via H
dpkg -l '*alsa*' -- will list all the package names have "alsa" with it.
dpkg -l '*alsa*' | grep -v '<none>' -- list all *installed alsa related packages
package query
search
dpkg -S|--search <pattern> ... find package(s) owning file(s)
$ dpkg -S wget wget: /usr/bin/wget [...] perl-5.004: /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/newgetopt.pl wget: /usr/share/info/wget.info-3.gz perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/newgetopt.pl wget: /usr/share/doc/wget/copyright [...]
Detail info
$ dpkg -p wget Package: wget Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 558 Architecture: i386 Version: 1.5.3-3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/web/wget_1.5.3-3.deb Size: 227728 MD5sum: 1fd5341edf1e673109861de1aff585ed Description: utility to retrieve files from the WWW via HTTP and FTP Wget [formerly known as Geturl] is a freely available network utility $ dpkg -s wget Package: wget Status: install ok installed Priority: optional [... rest are the same as above ...]
File info
$ dpkg -L wget /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/wget /usr/share /usr/share/info /usr/share/info/wget.info-2.gz [...]
Yes! that's what I'm looking for.
