Comments on: Debian Linux apt-get package management cheat sheet

By: ROBERT WATKINS

ROBERT WATKINS — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:19:31 +0000

please tell me where do i find the url to type :sudo apt -get install afce4? THANK YOU,,,BOB WATKINS,,,watkinsbob5@yahoo.com

By: narendra sisodiya

narendra sisodiya — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:57:18 +0000

I want to include this article in School OS Distro – http://schoolos.org , may I ?

By: klm

klm — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:44:39 +0000

i find that aptitude and apt-get uses the same command-line syntax. i believe the only difference is that aptitude does better logging and search-formats are better.

By: gwern

gwern — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:19:54 +0000

J Story: does ‘sudo dpkg -i foo.deb’ not work or something?

By: debmonkey

debmonkey — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:43:24 +0000

Aptitude has command line mode as well as gui.

aptitude install apache

does exactly that. About the only time to use apt-get these days is to install aptitude. ;)

By: J Story

J Story — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:19:56 +0000

Is there no way to upgrade an installed package to a downloaded .deb file?

This is kindergarten stuff for .rpm systems, but google gives me no joy here.

By: kneekoo

kneekoo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:21:50 +0000

dpkg -i package_name.deb

Or if you have more deb files and you want to install them all at once:

dpkg -i *.deb

By: muhammad zia ul haq

muhammad zia ul haq — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:01:04 +0000

how to install a new package downloaded and stored in the flash disk, the package. deb

….^_^ thank’s

By: kneekoo

kneekoo — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:19:32 +0000

Because it’s way easier to type: apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql than enter aptitude and select the packages then install. When you know how… it’s easier with apt-get.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:51:34 +0000

Why use apt-get, dpkg, etc. when aptitude does all this and more?

By: Jissouille

Jissouille — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:51:12 +0000

Be careful when using this command : dpkg -l | grep -i 'sudo' because dpkg's output depends on the width of the terminal. For example compare : dpkg -l '*excel-perl*' and dpkg -l |grep '*excel-perl*' To obtain the "wide" listing (and thus be able to safely use pipes) you can use : COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l '*excel-perl*'

By: Rock Da Linux

Rock Da Linux — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:36:00 +0000

>slight typo, para 5 above…
Redhat packages end with ‘.rpm’ and NOT ‘.rmp’ as stated.

Thanks for pointing it out. Typo is corrected.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:03:00 +0000

slight typo, para 5 above…
Redhat packages end with ‘.rpm’ and NOT ‘.rmp’ as stated.

By: LinuxTitli

LinuxTitli — Sat, 14 May 2005 18:15:00 +0000

Because file /etc/passwd created by the script which was executed by apt-get install pkg.deb command …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 May 2005 11:25:00 +0000

What is wrong with command?
dpkg -S /etc/passwd

It should give me hint about the .deb file that what package owns the file /etc/passwd file…