A few quick tips for apt

Posted by suvi under Debian, Ubuntu

Here are a few tricks for APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool used on Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu.

View all the packages installed on a system
The easiest way to do it is:
dpkg –get-selections
It does not require to be root, and will display all the packages installed via APT. For example, the first lines may look

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