Raspberry Pi System Software Reference

APPENDIX C

Raspbian apt Commands

This appendix highlights the usage of commonly used package management commands under Raspbian Linux.

List Available Packages

$ apt–cache pkgnamestesseract−ocr−epopipenightdreamsopenoffice.org−l10n−mnmumudvbtbb−exampleslibsvm−javalibsalck3−devlibboost−timer1.50−devsnort−rules−defaultfreediams−doc−fr...

List Installed Packages

$ dpkg -lDesired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)||/ Name         Version        Architecture    Description+++ -=========== -============= -============-  ========================== ...