command line: what files does a package install?

Paul Dwerryhouse paul at dwerryhouse.com.au
Mon Sep 25 02:20:18 UTC 2006


On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 09:43:40PM -0400, David Abrahams 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?

Yep:

	dpkg -L pkgname

Cheers,

Paul


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