Debian package management
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- # the Debian APT = Advanced Packaging Tool
- # update and upgrade
- $ sudo apt-get update # update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources
- $ sudo apt-get upgrade # upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list
dealing with packages files (.deb)
- # what's the official package name?
- $ dpkg --info PACKAGE.deb
- # which files are included? will be created from this package file?
- $ dpkg --contents PACKAGE.deb
- # ...
- $ ...
dealing with installed packages
- # which packages are installed (together with details)?
- $ dpkg-query --list
- # is there an installed package, that sounds like XYZ?
- $ dpkg-query --list | fgrep XYZ
- # details of an installed package (that you know the name of, e.g. PACKAGE)
- $ dpkg-query --list PACKAGE
- # what's the content of an installed package (e.g. PACKAGE)?
- $ dpkg-query --listfiles PACKAGE
- # ...
- $ ...
rpm2deb
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software)
- https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien : alien -k ...
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9714/what-is-the-need-for-fakeroot-command-in-linux#9720
alien --to-deb ...
this command line creates a Debian package from an RPM package
(using that e-mail address for the package creator (?)).
CAVEAT: won't actually work, because creating a Debian package requires running this as root
- $ env EMAIL='jochen.hayek@ext.COMPANY.com' alien --to-deb --keep-version ...
some command line parameters can only get passied to "alien" as environment variables.
fakeroot ...
you do not have root priviliges,
but you need to pretend to have them for achieving certain goals like creating a Debian package:
- $ fakeroot --unknown-is-real ...
open questions
- how to deal with dependencies specified within the RPM package?
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