25 Mar 2008 aptitude cheatsheet
aptitude is a great alternative to apt-get and the best way to install, remove, upgrade, and otherwise administer packages on you system with apt. aptitude solves orphaned dependencies and has a curses interface that blows the doors off of dselect. Finally, and most importantly, it takes advantage of one tool, doing many many operations:
| Syntax | Description |
|---|---|
| aptitude | Running it with no arguments brings up a curses based interface to search, navigate, install, update and otherwise administer packages |
| aptitude install | Installing software for your system, installing needed dependencies as well |
| aptitude -d install | Download packages to the package cache as necessary, but do not install or remove anything. |
| aptitude remove | Removing packages as well as orphaned dependencies |
| aptitude purge | Removing packages and orphaned dependencies as well as any configuration files left behind |
| aptitude search | Search for packages in the local apt package lists |
| aptitude update | Update the local packages lists |
| aptitude upgrade | Upgrade any installed packages that have been updated |
| aptitude clean | Delete any downloaded files necessary for installing the software on your system |
| aptitude dist-upgrade | Upgrade packages, even if it means uninstalling certain packages |
| aptitude show | Show details about a package name |
| aptitude autoclean | Delete only out-of-date packages, but keep current ones |
| aptitude hold | Fix a package at it’s current version, and don’t update it |
aptitude uses many of the same commands as apt-get. It is not a good idea to use both, you should either use aptitude or apt-get exclusively, or your dependencies might get confused.
Tags: aptitude, cheatsheet, Debian, Ubuntu
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
19 Mar 2008 dpkg command cheatsheet
| Syntax | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| dpkg -i {.deb package} | Install the package | dpkg -i zip_2.31-3_i386.deb |
| dpkg -i {.deb package} | Upgrade package if it is installed else install a fresh copy of package | dpkg -i zip_2.31-3_i386.deb |
| dpkg -R {Directory-name} | Install all packages recursively from directory | dpkg -R /tmp/downloads |
| dpkg -r {package} | Remove/Delete an installed package except configuration files | dpkg -r zip |
| dpkg -P {package} | Remove/Delete everything including configuration files | dpkg -P apache-perl |
| dpkg -l | List all installed packages, along with package version and short description | dpkg -l dokg -l | less dpkg -l ‘*apache*’ dpkg -l | grep -i ‘sudo’ |
| dpkg -l {package} | List individual installed packages, along with package version and short description | dpkg -l apache-perl |
| dpkg -L {package} | Find out files are provided by the installed package i.e. list where files were installed | dpkg -L apache-perl dpkg -L perl |
| dpkg -c {.Deb package} | List files provided (or owned) by the package i.e. List all files inside debian .deb package file, very useful to find where files would be installed | dpkg -c dc_1.06-19_i386.deb |
| dpkg -S {/path/to/file} | Find what package owns the file i.e. find out what package does file belong | dpkg -S /bin/netstat dpkg -S /sbin/ippool |
| dpkg -p {package} | Display details about package package group, version, maintainer, Architecture, display depends packages, description etc | dpkg -p lsof |
| dpkg -s {package} | grep Status | Find out if Debian package is installed or not (status) | dpkg -s lsof | grep Status |
{package} – Replace with actual package name
Tags: cheatsheet, Debian, dpkg, Ubuntu
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
19 Mar 2008 rpm command cheatsheet
This is a simple cheatsheet for the rpm command and can be used on systems like RedHat that uses the command
| Syntax | Description | Example(s) |
|---|---|---|
| rpm -ivh {rpm-file} | Install the package | rpm -ivh sendmail-cf-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -ivh –test sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm |
| rpm -Uvh {rpm-file} | Upgrade package | rpm -Uvh sendmail-cf-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -Uvh –test sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm |
| rpm -ev {package} | Erase/remove/ an installed package | rpm -ev sendmail |
| rpm -ev –nodeps {package} | Erase/remove/ an installed package without checking for dependencies | rpm -ev –nodeps sendmail |
| rpm -qa | Display list all installed packages | rpm -qa rpm -qa | less |
| rpm -qi {package} | Display installed information along with package version and short description | rpm -qi sendmail |
| rpm -qf {/path/to/file} | Find out what package a file belongs to i.e. find what package owns the file | rpm -qf /etc/passwd rpm -qf /bin/bash |
| rpm -qc {pacakge-name} | Display list of configuration file(s) for a package | rpm -qc httpd |
| rpm -qcf {/path/to/file} | Display list of configuration files for a command | rpm -qcf /usr/bin/locate |
| rpm -qa –last | Display list of all recently installed RPMs | rpm -qa –last rpm -qa –last | less |
| rpm -qpR {.rpm-file} rpm -qR {package} |
Find out what dependencies a rpm file has | rpm -qpR sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -qR bash |
| rpm –test {package} | Perform Installation Tests Only | rpm -i –test rpm-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm /bin/rpm conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/bin/gendiff conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/bin/rpm2cpio conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/bin/rpmconvert conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 /usr/man/man8/rpm.8 conflicts with file from rpm-2.3-1 error: rpm-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed |
| rpm –replacepkgs | Install the Package Even If Already Installed. Is used to force RPM to install a package that it believes to be installed already. This option is normally used if the installed package has been damaged somehow and needs to be fixed up. |
{package} – Replace with actual package name
Tags: cheatsheet, rpm
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
