How do i show details of an installed ubuntu package?
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show (apt-cache(8)) Show information about the given package(s) including its dependencies, installation and download size, sources the package is available from, the description of the packages content and much more. It can e.g. be helpful to look at this information before allowing apt(8) to remove a package or while searching for new packages to install.
$ apt show nginx Package: nginx Version: 1.14.2-1~bionic Priority: optional Section: httpd Maintainer: Sergey Budnevitch <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 2,933 kB Provides: httpd Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libpcre3, libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), adduser Conflicts: nginx-common Homepage: http://nginx.org Download-Size: 836 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu bionic/nginx amd64 Packages Description: high performance web server nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server. N: There are 4 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
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