command line: what files does a package install?

Tod Merley todbot88 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 01:53:05 UTC 2006


On 9/24/06, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> In Synaptic, I can ask for the "Properties" of any installed package,
> and there's a tab called "Installed files" that will tell me which
> files are part of that package.
>
> Is there a way to get the same information from the command-line?
>
> TIA,
>
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Hi David Abrahams!

I am not an expert.  I would start with:

man dpkg

Good Hunting!

Tod




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