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How do I find a repository package?
You can use yum -v search that would show you packages along with repo it is present in. If you also add –showduplicates you will see all versions of that package.
How do I search for packages on apt get?
Open the terminal application or log in to the remote server using ssh (e.g. ssh user@sever-name ) Run command apt list –installed to list all installed packages on Ubuntu. To display a list of packages satisfying certain criteria such as show matching apache2 packages, run apt list apache.
How do I search for a package?
To find out the package name and with it description before installing, use the ‘search’ flag. Using “search” with apt-cache will display a list of matched packages with short description. Let’s say you would like to find out description of package ‘vsftpd’, then command would be.
Can you search the repository of a package?
So if you dont have “filelists.xml.gz” inside your repository, then you will not be able to search the repository with your required file (this kind of searching is done to identify, which package provides a particular file.) Most of the packages install a lot number of files on the system.
How does Yum install packages from a repository?
Not that it will download only the list of packages with details, not the packages. After downloading the list, If yum was able to fetch all the dependencies for your required package (from that repository or other repositories) yum will install it after confirming with you.
How to find out which repository Ubuntu has?
Or the alternative with more info apt show , line starting with “APT-Sources:”. Description: This package provides command line tools for searching and managing as well as querying information about packages as low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
How to find the source of a package?
apt-cache showpkg – will show a list of Versions of the package available. For each version, the source of the package, in the form of an index file name, will be given. If you want to find the source of the package that’s currently installed, you’ll need the output of dpkg -s .