Or to do a configuring of all unconfigured packages if there has been a problem with an update and some packages' configuration is still pending: sudo dpkg -configure -aįor a great tutorial that focuses on dpkg and apt-get, see chapters 5 and 6 of the Debian Handbook, which is the best discussion available. Dpkg can also be called to reconfigure particular packages that have been configured (see man dpkg-reconfigure): sudo dpkg-reconfigure The status of each package is listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status, which can be used with grep to check on a particular package. deb archives see man dpkg-deb for further information. With dpkg-deb, for example, you can perform various actions in analysing and manually extracting files from the.

We are now getting to the heart of what dpkg does it expertly handles Debian packages, rather than their dependencies.

In his blog, Raphael Hertzog (who is a key Debian developer and maintainer of the dpkg package) explains more about dpkg triggers and the way dpkg inspects and configures packages. Hence when you look in /var/log/dpkg.log there are a lot of verbose details about 'triggers' and packages going through varying stages of unpacking and configuration. deb file are important as they give information to the program regarding the packages' installation, removal and configuration. If, for example we call apt-get to install cheese, the dependency tree is analysed and the necessary files are fetched by apt-get, which then passes them to dpkg to extract, analyse and install to the correct locations and configure them according to the scripts inside them. However, what has not been explained is the anatomy of an update using dpkg and apt-get. deb files that have been gained from other sources because these two programs have dependency resolution. However, it is better to use Software Centre or Gdebi to install or remove. As has been said, dpkg is a low-level system tool to extract, analyse, unpack and install or remove.

Dpkg command