Difference between revisions of "Debian Linux apt-get package management reference"
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List all installed packages
# dpkg -l
searching installed packages
# dpkg -s package_name| grep Status
Search package repo for available packages
# apt-cache search string *** (string can be a partial package name)
update entire system
# apt-get dist-upgrade
remove / uninstall a package
apt-get purge package_name
remove pulse audio, tested on lmde
apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol
dependency check
apt-cache depends <package_name>
manual install of .deb file
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends *.deb
