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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | COMMANDS | OPTIONS | EXIT STATUS | ENVIRONMENT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
dpkg-query(1) dpkg suite dpkg-query(1)
dpkg-query - a tool to query the dpkg database
dpkg-query [option...] command
dpkg-query is a tool to show information about packages listed in the
dpkg database.
-l, --list [package-name-pattern...]
List packages matching given pattern. If no package-name-
pattern is given, list all packages in
/usr/local/var/lib/dpkg/status, excluding the ones marked as
not-installed (i.e. those which have been previously purged).
Normal shell wildcard characters are allowed in package-name-
pattern. Please note you will probably have to quote package-
name-pattern to prevent the shell from performing filename
expansion. For example this will list all package names
starting with “libc6”:
dpkg-query -l 'libc6*'
The first three columns of the output show the desired action,
the package status, and errors, in that order.
Desired action:
u = Unknown
i = Install
h = Hold
r = Remove
p = Purge
Package status:
n = Not-installed
c = Config-files
H = Half-installed
U = Unpacked
F = Half-configured
W = Triggers-awaiting
t = Triggers-pending
i = Installed
Error flags:
<empty> = (none)
R = Reinst-required
An uppercase status or error letter indicates the package is
likely to cause severe problems. Please refer to dpkg(1) for
information about the above states and flags.
The output format of this option is not configurable, but
varies automatically to fit the terminal width. It is intended
for human readers, and is not easily machine-readable. See -W
(--show) and --showformat for a way to configure the output
format.
-W, --show [package-name-pattern...]
Just like the --list option this will list all packages
matching the given pattern. However the output can be
customized using the --showformat option. The default output
format gives one line per matching package, each line having
the name (extended with the architecture qualifier for
Multi-Arch same packages) and installed version of the
package, separated by a tab.
-s, --status package-name...
Report status of specified package. This just displays the
entry in the installed package status database. When multiple
package-name are listed, the requested status entries are
separated by an empty line, with the same order as specified
on the argument list.
-L, --listfiles package-name...
List files installed to your system from package-name. When
multiple package-name are listed, the requested lists of files
are separated by an empty line, with the same order as
specified on the argument list. However, note that files
created by package-specific installation-scripts are not
listed.
--control-list package-name
List control files installed to your system from package-name
(since dpkg 1.16.5). These can be used as input arguments to
--control-show.
--control-show package-name control-file
Print the control-file installed to your system from package-
name to the standard output (since dpkg 1.16.5).
-c, --control-path package-name [control-file]
List paths for control files installed to your system from
package-name (since dpkg 1.15.4). If control-file is
specified then only list the path for that control file if it
is present.
Warning: this command is deprecated as it gives direct access
to the internal dpkg database, please switch to use
--control-list and --control-show instead for all cases where
those commands might give the same end result. Although, as
long as there is still at least one case where this command is
needed (i.e. when having to remove a damaging postrm
maintainer script), and while there is no good solution for
that, this command will not get removed.
-S, --search filename-search-pattern...
Search for packages that own files corresponding to the given
pattern. Standard shell wildcard characters can be used in
the pattern, where asterisk (*) and question mark (?) will
match a slash, and blackslash (\) will be used as an escape
character.
If the first character in the filename-search-pattern is none
of ‘*[?/’ then it will be considered a substring match and
will be implicitly surrounded by ‘*’ (as in *filename-search-
pattern*). If the subsequent string contains any of ‘*[?\’,
then it will handled like a glob pattern, otherwise any
trailing ‘/’ or ‘/.’ will be removed and a literal path lookup
will be performed.
This command will not list extra files created by maintainer
scripts, nor will it list alternatives.
-p, --print-avail package-name...
Display details about package-name, as found in
/usr/local/var/lib/dpkg/available. When multiple package-name
are listed, the requested available entries are separated by
an empty line, with the same order as specified on the
argument list.
Users of APT-based frontends should use apt-cache show
package-name instead as the available file is only kept up-to-
date when using dselect.
-?, --help
Show the usage message and exit.
--version
Show the version and exit.
--admindir=dir
Change the location of the dpkg database. The default location
is /usr/local/var/lib/dpkg.
--load-avail
Also load the available file when using the --show and --list
commands, which now default to only querying the status file
(since dpkg 1.16.2).
-f, --showformat=format
This option is used to specify the format of the output --show
will produce. The format is a string that will be output for
each package listed.
In the format string, “\” introduces escapes:
\n newline
\r carriage return
\t tab
“\” before any other character suppresses any special meaning
of the following character, which is useful for “\” and “$”.
Package information can be included by inserting variable
references to package fields using the syntax
“${field[;width]}”. Fields are printed right-aligned unless
the width is negative in which case left alignment will be
used. The following fields are recognized but they are not
necessarily available in the status file (only internal fields
or fields stored in the binary package end up in it):
Architecture
Bugs
Conffiles (internal)
Config-Version (internal)
Conflicts
Breaks
Depends
Description
Enhances
Essential
Filename (internal, front-end related)
Homepage
Installed-Size
MD5sum (internal, front-end related)
MSDOS-Filename (internal, front-end related)
Maintainer
Origin
Package
Pre-Depends
Priority
Provides
Recommends
Replaces
Revision (obsolete)
Section
Size (internal, front-end related)
Source
Status (internal)
Suggests
Tag (usually not in .deb but in repository Packages files)
Triggers-Awaited (internal)
Triggers-Pending (internal)
Version
The following are virtual fields, generated by dpkg-query from
values from other fields (note that these do not use valid
names for fields in control files):
binary:Package
It contains the binary package name with a possible
architecture qualifier like “libc6:amd64” (since dpkg
1.16.2). An architecture qualifier will be present to
make the package name unambiguous, for example if the
package has a Multi-Arch field with a value of same or
the package is of a foreign architecture.
binary:Summary
It contains the package short description (since dpkg
1.16.2).
db:Status-Abbrev
It contains the abbreviated package status (as three
characters), such as “ii ” or “iHR” (since dpkg
1.16.2). See the --list command description for more
details.
db:Status-Want
It contains the package wanted status, part of the
Status field (since dpkg 1.17.11).
db:Status-Status
It contains the package status word, part of the Status
field (since dpkg 1.17.11).
db:Status-Eflag
It contains the package status error flag, part of the
Status field (since dpkg 1.17.11).
source:Package
It contains the source package name for this binary
package (since dpkg 1.16.2).
source:Version
It contains the source package version for this binary
package (since dpkg 1.16.2)
The default format string is
“${binary:Package}\t${Version}\n”. Actually, all other fields
found in the status file (i.e. user defined fields) can be
requested, too. They will be printed as-is, though, no
conversion nor error checking is done on them. To get the name
of the dpkg maintainer and the installed version, you could
run:
dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:Package} ${Version}\t${Maintainer}\n' dpkg
0 The requested query was successfully performed.
1 The requested query failed either fully or partially, due to
no file or package being found (except for --control-path,
--control-list and --control-show were such errors are fatal).
2 Fatal or unrecoverable error due to invalid command-line
usage, or interactions with the system, such as accesses to
the database, memory allocations, etc.
DPKG_ADMINDIR
If set and the --admindir option has not been specified, it
will be used as the dpkg data directory.
COLUMNS
This setting influences the output of the --list option by
changing the width of its output.
dpkg(1).
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