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TL;DR

dpkg-query

Display information about installed packages. More information: https://manned.org/dpkg-query.1.

  • List all installed packages:

dpkg-query --list

  • List installed packages matching a pattern:

dpkg-query --list 'libc6*'

  • List all files installed by a package:

dpkg-query --listfiles libc6

  • Show information about a package:

dpkg-query --status libc6

  • Search for packages that own files matching a pattern:

dpkg-query --search /etc/ld.so.conf.d

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