Usefull Commands: dpkg, apt and aptitude

Published 1 year, 8 months ago. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .
  • List all installed packages: 
    dpkg -l
  • Clean aptitude local cache: 
    apt-get clean
  • Uninstall a package throughly: 
    apt-get remove --purge my_package
  • Remove orphaned pakages: 
    deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove purge
  • Show the changelog of a package (here, the linux kernel of Ubuntu): 
    aptitude changelog linux-generic
  • Remove dpkg lock file: 
    rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

2 Responses to “Usefull Commands: dpkg, apt and aptitude”

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  • djib
    1 year, 8 months ago. 
    apt-get autoclean

    is also an interesting feature. It purges obsolete package cache.

  • kev
    1 year, 8 months ago.

    @djib: thanks for the tip ! Actually I delegate all these tasks to cron-apt. If you don’t know it, you should give it a chance: it really save you time.

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