The ‘ upgrade‘ command is used to upgrade all the currently installed software packages on the system. $ sudo apt-get update password for tecmint: The update command fetched the packages from their locations and update the packages to newer version. The ‘ update‘ command is used to resynchronize the package index files from the their sources specified in /etc/apt/sources.list file. Total Desc/File relations: 81048 (1,297 k)ĪPT-GET – 20 Useful Basic Commands for Package Management 6. Total distinct descriptions: 81048 (1,945 k) Total package structures: 51868 (2,490 k) $ apt-cache stats Total package names: 51868 (1,037 k) For example, the following command will display Total package names is the number of packages have found in the cache. The ‘ stats‘ sub command will display overall statistics about the cache. For example, use the ‘ showpkg‘ command along with package-name. whether those dependencies packages are installed or not. Use the ‘ showpkg‘ sub command to check the dependencies for particular software packages. How Do I Check Dependencies for Specific Packages?

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$ apt-cache show netcat Package: netcatįilename: pool/universe/n/netcat/netcat_1.10-40_all.deb How Do I Check Package Information?įor example, if you would like to check information of package along with it short description say (version number, check sums, size, installed size, category etc). To find and list down all the packages starting with ‘ vsftpd‘, you could use the following command.

Aptget update