apt-cache: it is used for searching apt software package cache
$ apt-cache pkgnames
list all the available packages
$ apt-cache search apache2
display a list of matched packages with short description
$ apt-cache pkgnames apache2
To find and list down all the packages starting with apache2
$ apt-cache show samba
to find a package informations like version number, check sums, size,
installed size, category
$ apt-cache showpkg apache2
to check the dependencies for particular software packages
$ apt-cache stats
to display Total package names is the number of packages
found in the cache
$ apt-cache policy samba
to show policy settings
$ apt-cache depends apache2
show raw dependency information for a package
$ apt-cache rdepends apache2
shows a listing of each reverse dependency a package has
regards,
T.Dhanasekar
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