Cheat Sheet:

YUM | DPKG | APTITUDE CHEAT SHEET

Action YUM DPKG

Query for all installaed pacakages rpm -qa dpkg -l

List files installed by specfic package rpm -ql <RPM NAME> dpkg -l <PACKAGE NAME>

Query info regarding specfic package rpm -i <RPM NAME> dpkg -i <PACKAGE NAME>

Which package installed this file? rpm -qf <FILE PATH> dpkg -S <FILE PATH>

YUM APT-* APTITUDE Example Notes

Repo DB update yum clean expire-cache apt-get update aptitude update

Package Search yum search <RPM NAME> apt-cache search <PACKAGE NAME> aptitude search <PACKAGE NAME>

Show Package Info

yum info <RPM NAME>
apt-cache show <PACKAGE NAME>
aptitude show <PACKAGE NAME>

apt-cache showpkg <PACKAGE NAME> detailed info

Install Package yum install <RPM NAME> apt-get install <PACKAGE NAME> aptitude install <PACKAGE NAME>

Check Repo against specefic package version yum list available <RPM NAME> apt-cache madison <PACKAGE NAME>

Install Specfic Package Version yum install <RPM VERSION> apt-get install <package NAME>=<VERSION> apt-get install apache2=2.4.25-3+deb9u3

Package Reinstall yum reinstall <RPM NAME> apt-get install --reinstall <PACKAGE NAME> aptitude reinstall <PACKAGE NAME>

Update specfic package yum update <RPM NAME> apt-get upgrade <PACKAGE NAME> aptitude upgrade <PACKAGE NAME>

Update all packages yum update apt-get upgrade

Download only package yumdownloader <RPM NAME> apt-get -d install <PACKAGE NAME> Check "/var/cache/apt/archives" for doenladed package

Remove Package

yum remove <RPM NAME>
apt-get remove <PACKAGE NAME> aptitude remove <PACKAGE NAME> Package Remove

apt-get purge <PACKAGE NAME> aptitude purge <PACKAGE NAME> Remove packages and config files

Remove Package with Depnedencies yum autoremove <RPM NAME> apt-get autoremove <PACKAGE NAME> N/A

Look for package provides binary yum whatprovides <BINARY> apt-file search <BINARY PATH> N/A apt-file search /usr/bin/nslookup you have to run "apt update" at the first time

Clean Repo Cache yum clean all apt-get clean aptitude clean

List installed package and check for its updates yum list <RPM NAME> apt list --upgradable -a <PACKAGE NAME>

LinuxCBT Slides:

dpkg

List all installed packages:

root@debian93:~# dpkg -l

root@debian93:~# dpkg -l
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                           Version                        Architecture Description
+++-==============================-==============================-============-===============================================================================
ii  adduser                        3.115                          all          add and remove users and groups
[...]

root@debian93:~# dpkg -l | wc -l
331

List specfic installed package metadeta:

root@debian93:~# dpkg -l adduser
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                     Version                   Architecture              Description
+++-========================================-=========================-=========================-======================================================================================
ii  adduser                                  3.115                     all                       add and remove users and groups

List all files installed by specific package:

root@debian93:~# dpkg -L adduser
/.
/etc
/etc/deluser.conf
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/adduser
/usr/sbin/deluser
[...]

Install package from downloaded package:

root@debian93:~# cd /tmp
root@debian93:/tmp# wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tofrodos/tofrodos_1.7.13+ds-2_amd64.deb

root@debian93:~# dpkg -i /tmp/tofrodos_1.7.13+ds-2_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package tofrodos.
(Reading database ... 28344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../tofrodos_1.7.13+ds-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tofrodos (1.7.13+ds-2) ...
Setting up tofrodos (1.7.13+ds-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...

root@debian93:~# dpkg -L tofrodos
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc-base
/usr/share/doc-base/tofrodos
[...]

Which Package installed sepcfic file:

root@debian93:~# dpkg -S /usr/share/doc-base/tofrodos
tofrodos: /usr/share/doc-base/tofrodos

apt-* :

Refresh /etc/apt/sources.list Repos DB:

root@debian93:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease
Ign:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB]
Hit:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Fetched 91.0 kB in 1s (71.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

In order to have better understanding of '/etc/apt/sources.list', check the following link:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

List current used Debian Repos:

Configuration file:

root@debian93:~/scripts# cat  /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20171209-12:10]/ stretch main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20171209-12:10]/ stretch main

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main

# stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main

List of current used Repos, notice '/etc/apt/sources.list.d' usage

root@debian93:~/scripts# grep -h '^deb'  /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
grep: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*: No such file or directory

"deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main" could be found in the following path:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/

"deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main" could be found in the following path:
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/

Following script should provide better way to list current used repos
https://github.com/abdurrahman84/BASH-real-examples/blob/master/debian_repo_list.sh

Check "apt-*' and 'aptitude' jobs in crontab:

root@debian93:~# ls /etc/cron.daily/apt*
/etc/cron.daily/apt-compat  /etc/cron.daily/aptitude  /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-versions

Sample of repo creation if you want to set repos manually in '/etc/apt/sources.list' file:

root@debian8:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.10.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20171209-21:51]/ jessie main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.10.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20171209-21:51]/ jessie main

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ jessie-updates main

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