List | dijexi.com

Show the List of Installed Packages on Ubuntu or Debian

March 9th, 2010 akhmad daniel sembiring No comments

The command we need to use to list the packages currently installed in Ubuntu or Debian is dpkg –get-selections. For example:

# dpkg --get-selections
acpi                                            install
acpi-support-base                               install
acpid                                           install
adduser                                         install
apache2                                         install
apache2-mpm-prefork                             install
apache2-utils                                   install
apache2.2-common                                install
apt                                             install
apt-utils                                       install
aptitude                                        install
autoconf                                        install
automake                                        install
automake1.4                                     install
autotools-dev                                   install
avahi-daemon                                    install
bacula-common                                   install
bacula-fd                                       install
base-files                                      install
base-passwd                                     install
bash                                            install
bind9-host                                      install
binutils                                        install

…

It will return a long list showing all the installed packages. To filter to specific list of packages, for example we only need to show java packages, combine it with grep, for example:

# dpkg --get-selections|grep java
java-common                                     install
java-gcj-compat                                 install
java-gcj-compat-headless                        install
libbcel-java                                    install
liblog4j1.2-java                                install
liblog4j1.2-java-gcj                            install
libmx4j-java                                    install
libpg-java                                      install
libregexp-java                                  install
sun-java6-bin                                   install
sun-java6-jdk                                   install
sun-java6-jre                                   install

We can find the locations of the files within a package from the list by using the dpkg -L command, such as:

# dpkg -L sun-java6-jdk|more
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/copyright
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/README.alternatives
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/README.html
/usr/share/menu
/usr/share/menu/sun-java6-jdk
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications/sun-java6-jconsole.desktop
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/sun-java6-jdk
/usr/share/doc-base
/usr/share/doc-base/sun-java6-jdk-readme
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/jvm
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/include
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/include/linux
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/include/linux/jni_md.h
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/include/linux/jawt_md.h
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/include/jni.h
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/include/jdwpTransport.h

…