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By Abhishek Ghosh October 8, 2014 6:17 pm Updated on October 8, 2014

Useful apt Tricks For SSH (Ubuntu, Debian and Deb Linux)

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Here are some apt tricks for SSH, manly useful to Debian, Ubuntu and deb Linux servers. There are some lesser known commands related to apt. Previously we talked about Advanced Packaging Tool (apt) and aptitude, probably this will be a practical and useful to the readers. You can read about the package managers. We can have apt-get on OS X too.

 

Useful apt Tricks For SSH

 

Everyone knows these three commands :

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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
aptitude upgrade

apt-get and aptitude are both front ends to dpkg. Use one or the other but be consistent. aptitude is newer and is suppose to be easier to use. It also unifies some of the apt-* functions. We can add flags to apt-get :

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apt-get update -y
# no need to accept the prompt
apt-get -u install apache2
# updates only apache2
apt-get install packageName --only-upgrade
# understandable
apt-get install '*ngin*'
# wildcard for nginx
apt-get download nginx
# only download
apt-get check
# if you got disconnected while installing...
sudo apt-get --compile source nginx
# download, unpack and compile from source code
apt-get remove --purge <dist>
# remove is identical to install except that packages are removed
        instead of installed. Note that removing a package leaves its
        configuration files on the system. If a plus sign is appended to the
        package name (with no intervening space), the identified package
        will be installed instead of removed.
apt-get purge <dist>
# purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and
        purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
apt-get autoremove <dist>
# dangerous, removes all the dependencies too
apt-cache pkgnames
# dot it!
apt-get dist-upgrade
# intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
       of packages
sudo do-release-upgrade
# distribution upgrade, dangerous from ssh
man do-release-upgrade
# distribution upgrade manual
man apt-get
# manual !

Useful apt Tricks For SSH (Ubuntu, Debian and Deb Linux)

Now, something more with dpkg

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dpkg --get-selections
# View all the packages installed on a system
dpkg --get-selections > installed_packages.txt
# get a list
#
# Ok, make apt-get ignore updating a package
echo package-name hold | dpkg --set-selections
echo package-name install | dpkg --set-selections
dpkg --get-selections | grep hold

Removal of unused package files :

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du -h /var/cache/apt/archives/
apt-get clean
# remove all the packages except files which are locked. There is another command
apt-get autoclean
#  remove all the packages which are no longer available in the repository

Search function :

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apt-cache search ^apache2$
# example shows how to search the repository
apt-cache show apache2
# displays basic information about apache2
apt-cache showpkg apache2
# displays detailed information about apache2
apt-file list nginx | more
# display all the files located inside nginx
apt-cache depends mysql
# show dependencies
apt-cache stats
# do it!

There are huge tricks, we listed some commonly used.

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