Commands tagged packages (20)
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7whatinstalled() { which "$@" | xargs -r readlink -f | xargs -r dpkg -S ;}
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This one-liner will output installed packages sorted by size in Kilobytes. Show Sample Output
4paste <(pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs pacman -Qi | grep 'Size' | awk '{ print $4$5; }') <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1; }') | sort -n | column -t -
Just run this command and it will printout all the info available about your current distribution and package management system. Show Sample Output
4echo /etc/*_ver* /etc/*-rel*; cat /etc/*_ver* /etc/*-rel* -
3dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r | cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e [0-9] | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
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This has been my "sysupgrade" alias since ca. 2006, first used on Debian Sid, then Sabayon, and it still does its duty on Mint nowadays without breaking stuff.
2sudo sh -c "aptitude update; aptitude -DrVWZ full-upgrade; aptitude autoclean; exit" -
Shows the packages installed on your system that are recomemnded by other packages. You should remove these packages. Show Sample Output
1aptitude search '?and( ?automatic(?reverse-recommends(?installed)), ?not(?automatic(?reverse-depends(?installed))) )' -
Put this one-line function somewhere in your shell init, re-login and try
whatinstalled <command>This is an elaborate wrapper around "dpkg -S", with numerous safeguards. Symlinks and command aliases are resolved. If the searched command is not an existing executable file or was installed by some other means than dpkg/apt, nothing is printed to stdout, otherwise the package name. Show Sample Output1whatinstalled () { local cmdpath=$(realpath -eP $(which -a $1 | grep -E "^/" | tail -n 1) 2>/dev/null) && [ -x "$cmdpath" ] && dpkg -S $cmdpath 2>/dev/null | grep -E ": $cmdpath\$" | cut -d ":" -f 1; } -
The vaule is expressed in megabytes Show Sample Output
1echo $[ ($(dpkg-query -s $(dpkg --get-selections | grep -oP '^.*(?=\binstall)') | grep -oP '(?<=Installed-Size: )\d+' | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/+$//')) / 1024 ] -
Sometimes we install programs, we forget about them, and they stay there wasting RAM. This one-liner try to find them. Show Sample Output
1ps -eo cmd | awk '{print $1}'| sort -u | grep "^/" | xargs dpkg -S 2>/dev/null | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort -u | xargs apt-mark showmanual -
0pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qq)|grep 'Name\|Size'| cut -d: -f2 | paste - - | column -t | sort -nk2
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# Search for an available package on Debian systems using a regex so it only matches packages starting with 'tin'.
0aptitude search ^tin -
M is size in megabytes, man expac to see other sizes %m is install size %k is download size
0expac -S -H M "%m %n"|sort -n -
Removes packages that are recommended by other packages.
0aptitude remove '?and( ?automatic(?reverse-recommends(?installed)), ?not(?automatic(?reverse-depends(?installed))) )' -
This functionality seems to be missing from commands like dpkg. Ideally, I want to duplicate the behavior of rpm --verify, but it seems difficult to do this in one relatively short command pipeline. Show Sample Output
0dpkg-query -Wf '${Package}\n' | xargs dpkg --status | sed '/^Conffiles:/,/^Description:/!d;//d' | awk '{print $2 " " $1}' | md5sum -c 2>/dev/null | grep FAILED$ | cut -f1 -d':' -
0dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Status}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | grep installed
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If you run dpkg --clear-selections or have otherwise selected installed packages for deinstall, but want to undo it, run this. It will set all installed packages back to installed status so that they won't be removed by commands like "dpkg -Pa"
0dpkg -l | grep ^ri | awk '{print $2 " install"}' | sudo dpkg --set-selections -
0debsums
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In this example I am returning all the files in /usr/bin that weren't put there by pacman, so that they can be moved to /usr/local/bin where they (most likely) belong. Show Sample Output
0for file in /usr/bin/*; do pacman -Qo "$file" &> /dev/null || echo "$file"; done -
This version accounts for the MiB/KiB suffix output by pacman these days.
0pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' 'BEGIN{ s["MiB"]=1024; s["KiB"]=1;} {split($3, a, " "); print a[1] * s[a[2]], "KiB", $1}' | sort -n -
This, like the other commands listed here, displays installed arch packages. Unlike the other ones this also displays the short description so you can see what that package does without having to go to google. It also shows the largest packages on top. You can optionally pipe this through head to display an arbitrary number of the largest packages installed (e.g. ... | head -30 # for the largest 30 packages installed) Show Sample Output
-1pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn
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