Debian

Created 2022-10-19 Updated 2023-03-19

apt

Describe

apt show $pkg

Show information about the given package(s) including its dependencies, installation and download size, sources the package is available, etc.

Install downloaded .deb pkg

sudo apt install ./foo.deb

List files

dpkg --listfiles $pkg

Update

Standard update:

sudo apt update # updates list of avail packs
sudo apt upgrade # actually installs them