Technicality
· 27TH OF OCTOBER, THE YEAR 2006COMMAND-LINE PACKAGE MANAGEMENT IN DEBIAN/UBUNTU
Just a little cheat sheet for future reference.
Installation
apt-get install gimp
Removal
apt-get remove gimp
Search
apt-cache search gimp
Dependencies
apt-cache depends gimp
apt-cache depends --installed gimp
apt-cache rdepends gimp
List Installed Packages
dpkg -l |grep gimp
Manually Compiling & Installing for Use in apt
Manual compilation is all well and good, but compiling a Debian package makes it easier to uninstall things cleanly.
./configure
checkinstall
ONE COMMENT
You might want to check out the command line tool “wajig” which is a wrapper for many common apt and system administrative tasks – probably the nicest feature is that it automatically invokes “sudo” when necessary.