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Bookmark or Share- How to uninstall a .deb package? - Ask UbuntuTo that end, the below command will extract the package name from the deb and remove that package name. dpkg -r $(dpkg -f your-file-here.deb Package) NB: this does not confirm that the package being removed is the exact version described by the deb - be careful.
- What are .deb and .rpm and how are they different from .msi?Both .deb and .rpm are Software packages for GNU/Linux Distributions, containing software (program(s), application(s), etc.) and information for the "*installer *" software about the software itself and instructions about how to install what and where correctly..deb → Debian Software Package, on Debian (based
- apt - Where are .deb files located? - Ask UbuntuBy default, apt stores the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you can't find them here, you or someone else or something else(a software like Ubuntu tweak) may have run a clean-up command like sudo apt-get clean to clear up the .deb files. However, you can manually search all .deb files in your system by doing the following(may require ...
- How do I install a .deb file via the command line? - Ask UbuntuIf file is only one, then afaik dpkg -i /path/file.deb is ok and simple (make sure apt user has access to the path, for user home folder it usually does not). In case of several deb files (e.g. one package) sometimes dpkg tries to process them in order where dependencies
- What are the pros/cons of deb vs. rpm? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchangedeb packages and the dpkg system store your maintainer scripts as separate files dpkg and rpm run the maintainer scripts in a different order during upgrades. Together, these differences have made it much easier for me to fix problems caused by bad packages, and to make packages behave the way I need them to, on deb -based systems than on rpm ...
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