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Commands tagged Debian

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grep -e `date +%Y-%m-%d` /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '/install / {print $4}' | uniq | xargs apt-get -y remove
2010-01-12 09:42:22
User: skygreg
Functions: awk grep uniq xargs
Tags: Debian
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Remove today's Debian installed packages

Adapted using your usefull comments !

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dpigs
2009-10-26 20:38:17
User: xrm0
Tags: Debian sort perl dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

dpigs is in the package debian-goodies (debian/ubuntu)

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sed -ne '/^Package: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;h;};/^Installed-Size: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;G;s/\n/ /;p;}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn
2009-10-19 19:01:17
User: arcege
Functions: sed sort
Tags: Debian sort sed dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Use the hold space to preserve lines until data is needed.

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perl -ne '$pkg=$1 if m/^Package: (.*)/; print "$1\t$pkg\n" if m/^Installed-Size: (.*)/;' < /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn | less
2009-10-19 12:55:59
User: hfs
Functions: perl sort
Tags: Debian sort perl dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

List packages and their disk usage in decreasing order. This uses the "Installed-Size" from the package metadata. It may differ from the actual used space, because e.g. data files (think of databases) or log files may take additional space.

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dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done
2009-10-12 14:57:54
User: pykler
Functions: bash cut du echo read sed tail tr xargs
Tags: Debian wajig
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List your largest installed packages.

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the

| sort -rn

which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side

Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;)

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cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list > /tmp/listin ; ls /proc/*/exe |xargs -l readlink | grep -xvFf /tmp/listin; rm /tmp/listin
2009-09-09 18:09:14
User: kamathln
Functions: cat grep ls readlink rm xargs
Tags: Debian find dpkg
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Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg

This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.

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echo -e "${PATH//://\n}" >/tmp/allpath; grep -Fh -f /tmp/allpath /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list|grep -vxh -f /tmp/allpath >/tmp/installedinpath ; find ${PATH//:/ } |grep -Fxv -f /tmp/installedinpath
2009-09-09 05:33:14
User: kamathln
Functions: echo find grep
Tags: Debian dpkg PATH
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find files in $PATH that were not installed through dpkg

OS: Debian based (or those that use dpkg)

Equivalent to doing a dpkg -S on each file in $PATH, but way faster.

May report files generated though postinstall scripts and such. For example . It will report /usr/bin/vim .. which is not not a file installed directly by dpkg, but a link generated by alternatives hooks

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rename 's/^/prefix/' *
2009-08-14 03:26:45
User: lingo
Functions: rename
Tags: Debian rename prefix
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Add prefix onto filenames

Best to try first with -n flag, to preview

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update-java-alternatives
2009-08-09 02:43:06
User: stuart
Tags: Debian Ubuntu
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Update program providing java on Debian

Lets you set all the java alternatives at once to a matching version. Also has options for just changing the jre or the plugin.

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dpkg-deb -x $debfile $extractdir; dpkg-deb -e $debfile $extractdir/DEBIAN;
2009-08-07 20:33:43
User: flokra
Tags: Debian dpkg packaging
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complete extraction of a debian-package

extracts the debian-package $debfile to $extractdir, including all packaging-information. to repack the package, just type:

dpkg-deb -b $extractdir
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notify-send ["<title>"] "<body>"
2009-04-29 10:05:20
User: cammarin
Tags: Debian Ubuntu gnome notify-send
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Send pop-up notifications on Gnome

The title is optional.

Options:

-t: expire time in milliseconds.

-u: urgency (low, normal, critical).

-i: icon path.

On Debian-based systems you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package.

Useful to advise when a wget download or a simulation ends. Example:

wget URL ; notify-send "Done"
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dpkg-query -l| grep -v "ii " | grep "rc " | awk '{print $2" "}' | tr -d "\n" | xargs aptitude purge -y
2009-04-28 19:25:53
User: thepicard
Functions: awk grep tr xargs
Tags: Debian awk xargs grep aptitude dpkg-query tr
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remove unneeded configuration files in debian

This will, for an application that has already been removed but had its configuration left behind, purge that configuration from the system. To test it out first, you can remove the last -y, and it will show you what it will purge without actually doing it. I mean it never hurts to check first, "just in case." ;)

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sudo aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{print $1}'`
2009-04-28 11:44:04
User: kelevra
Functions: awk grep sudo
Tags: Debian aptitude
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Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

Purge all configuration files of removed packages

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wajig large
2009-04-19 20:26:26
User: udim
Tags: Debian wajig
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List your largest installed packages.

Requires the "wajig" package to be installed.

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dlocate [ package | string ]
2009-04-19 20:19:06
User: udim
Tags: Debian
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Find a file's package or list a package's contents.

This is the fastest method to search the Debian package database.

Requires the dlocate package. The dlocate db updates periodically, but you may force an update with

# dlocate-update

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dpkg -S /usr/bin/ls
2009-04-18 18:18:23
User: bwoodacre
Tags: Debian Ubuntu dpkg wc
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(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to

'dpkg -S' just matches the string you supply it, so just using 'ls' as an argument matches any file from any package that has 'ls' anywhere in the filename. So usually it's a good idea to use an absolute path. You can see in the second example that 12 thousand files that are known to dpkg match the bare string 'ls'.

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grep "install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '{print $4}' | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge
2009-04-06 13:06:04
User: skygreg
Functions: awk grep xargs
Tags: Debian
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Remove today's installed packages
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dpkg --get-selections > LIST_FILE
2009-03-28 17:45:29
User: cammarin
Tags: Debian Ubuntu dpkg
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Generate a list of installed packages on Debian-based systems

This command is useful when you want to install the same packages on another fresh OS install for example. To do that, use:

sudo dpkg --set-selections < LIST_FILE
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function dpan () { PKG=`perl -e '$_=lc($ARGV[0]); s/::/-/g; print "lib$_-perl\n"' $1`; apt-get install $PKG; }
2009-03-12 15:39:38
User: dave0
Functions: install
Tags: Debian perl apt-get cpan
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Install the Debian-packaged version of a Perl module

Running 'cpan Module::Name' will install that module from CPAN. This is a simple way of using a similar command to install a packaged Perl module from a Debian archive using apt-get.

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dpkg --compare-versions 1.0-2ubuntu5 lt 1.1-1~raphink3 && echo y || echo n
2009-02-28 18:01:59
User: raphink
Functions: echo
Tags: Debian Ubuntu
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Know which version dpkg/apt considers more recent

Compares two versions with dpkg. It is not always obvious what version dpkg/apt will consider to be more recent. Operators include the following :

* These treat an empty version as earlier than any version: lt le eq ne ge gt.

* These treat an empty version as later than any version: lt-nl le-nl ge-nl gt-nl.

* These are provided only for compatibility with control file syntax: < > >.

This command doesn't output anything. It only returns with status 0 or 1, hence the echo "y" || echo "n" to get an output.

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dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
2009-02-26 21:22:57
User: raiden
Tags: Debian X Ubuntu X11 screen resolution
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Creates a minimalist xorg.conf
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apt-cache dotty apache2 | dot -T png | display
2009-02-18 14:27:31
User: raphink
Functions: apt dot
Tags: Debian ImageMagick Graphviz X Ubuntu X11 apt
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Generate a graph of package dependencies

Requires: imagemagick and graphviz

On Debian systems, displays a graph of package dependencies. Works also with other image formats, like svg :

apt-cache dotty bash | dot -T svg | display
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update-alternatives --config java
2009-02-18 13:43:41
User: raphink
Tags: Debian Ubuntu
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Update program providing a functionality on Debian

On Debian systems, choose which command provides java. Works for all alternatives listed in /etc/alternatives.

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