How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.

On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:48 +0800, toylet wrote:

> How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
> I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.

apt-cache show ?

On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:48 +0800, toylet wrote:

> How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
> I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.

man apt-file

list List the contents of a package matching the pattern pattern.
This action is very close to the dpkg -S command except the
package does not need to be installed or fetched.


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> apt-cache show ?

it didn't list the detail of the package. Can I see the files contained
inside a pkg of a repository?

gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:48 +0800, toylet wrote:
>
>
>>How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
>>I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.
>
>
> man apt-file
>

there is no apt-file in my ubuntu-5.04

On Sat, 07 May 2005 14:16:05 +0800, toylet wrote:

> gregor herrmann wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:48 +0800, toylet wrote:
>>
>>
>>>How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
>>>I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.
>>
>>
>> man apt-file
>>
>
> there is no apt-file in my ubuntu-5.04

apt-get install apt-file?

On Sat, 07 May 2005 08:47:51 +0200, asmo wrote:

> On Sat, 07 May 2005 14:16:05 +0800, toylet wrote:
>
>> gregor herrmann wrote:
>>> On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:48 +0800, toylet wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
>>>>I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.
>>>
>>>
>>> man apt-file
>>>
>>
>> there is no apt-file in my ubuntu-5.04
>
> apt-get install apt-file?

[asmodaiii@phoenix:~] $ apt-cache show apt-file
[...]
Description: APT package searching utility -- command-line interface
apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages for the APT
packaging system.

"asmo" <asmodaiii@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 07 May 2005 08:47:51 +0200, asmo wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 07 May 2005 14:16:05 +0800, toylet wrote:
> >
> >> gregor herrmann wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:30:48 +0800, toylet wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>How could I do that with apt-get or apt-cache?
> >>>>I want to see what's inside a package before downloading it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> man apt-file
> >>>
> >>
> >> there is no apt-file in my ubuntu-5.04
> >
> > apt-get install apt-file?
>
> [asmodaiii@phoenix:~] $ apt-cache show apt-file
> [...]
> Description: APT package searching utility -- command-line interface
> apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages for the APT
> packaging system.
> .
> Unlike apt-cache, you can search in which package a file is included
> or list the contents of a package without installing or fetching it.
> [...]
> .
>
You could try " dpkg -p lynx " lynx is the package

time:~# dpkg -p lynx
Package: lynx
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 4580
Maintainer: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.8.5-2
Replaces: lynx-ssl
Provides: www-browser, news-reader, lynx-ssl
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgnutls11 (>= 1.0.16),
libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Recommends: mime-support
Conflicts: lynx-ssl
Filename: pool/main/l/lynx/lynx_2.8.5-1_i386.deb
Size: 1854524
MD5sum: 1f913331fbd98d4a11df264cdeab4dff
Description: Text-mode WWW Browser
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users
running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g.,
vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other
"curses-oriented" display). It will display hypertext markup language
(HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local
system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher,
HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers.

time:~#