Remember I said that I hadn't figured out how to determine which Debian packages were installed and what they contained? OK, maybe I didn't say all that, but I implied it. After a good deal of searching, I found a good explanation of options for dpkg. It's useful to make a little table showing the equivalence between RedHat/Fedora RPM and yum commands and dpkg:
| Description | Debian Command | Fedora Command |
|---|---|---|
| List installed packages: | dpkg -l | rpm -qa |
| List all available packages: | dpkg -l '*' | yum list |
| List contents of package: | dpkg -L package_name | rpm -ql package_name |
| Find the package that installed file | dpkg -S file | rpm -qf file |
| Install a package | apt-get install package_name | rpm -i package_name or yum install package_name |
| Remove a package | dpkg --purge package_name | rpm -e package_name |
Of course, any commands the add, remove, or update files will need to be run as root or with the sudo command.
Anything else that's useful?
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