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Usefull Commands: dpkg, apt and aptitude

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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
```