Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed or Email Newsletter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. See Debian Linux apt-get package management cheat sheet for further information. All packages which match any of the given patterns will be displayed for instance, following will list all new packages and all packages whose name contains edit: Using the search feature will output any packages that match the search criteria.Īptitude can also searches for packages matching one of the patterns supplied on the command line. You can search for new packages to install using Apt – the package manager.
aptitude to search new Debian / Ubuntu Linux Packages Sample output: aegis-web - aegis web based user interfaceĪnalog - analyzes logfiles from web serversĪolserver4-dev - AOL Web Server 4 (Development Tools)Īolserver4-doc - AOL Web Server 4 (Documentation)Īolserver4-nsldap - AOLServer 4 module for LDAPĪpache2 - Next generation, scalable, extendable web serverĪpache2-mpm-prefork - Traditional model for Apache HTTPD 2.1Īpache2.2-common - Next generation, scalable, extendable web serverĪraneida - A programmable web server written and extended in LispĪria - Tool to download files from the Internet via HTTP or FTPĪwffull - web server log analysis program apt-cache to search Debian / Ubuntu Linux Packages Actions may be performed from a visual interface or from the command-line. It allows the user to view the list of packages and to perform package management tasks such as installing, upgrading, and removing packages. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package metadata.ī] aptitude command : aptitude is a text-based interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system. Notice that Searching for is a complete path for ping (installed) and just the binary name for dig not installed.A] apt-cache command : apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT’s package cache. For example, my system lacked dig but had ping so this it what resulted: $ apt-whatprovides pingĮpic4-help: /usr/share/epic4/help/8_Scripts/dig The apt-whatprovides script works for files that are and are not on your system. Though for most THINGs that are installed you can just use: apt-file search $(realpath $(which THING)) | grep 'THING$'įor THINGs that are not installed, you can use: apt-file search THING | grep '/THING$' PACKAGE="$(apt-file search $BINARY|grep -E ".*$$")" 201801010101 Copyright alexx, MIT Licence After a little work I created /usr/local/bin/apt-whatprovides #!/bin/sh
I was trying to track down what installed which on my system. I tried to make an edit to that answer, but it got rejected (though not by Alexx) This is an extension to Alexx Roche's excellent answer.
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