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Find the download location URL,name, size and MD5 sum of a software package using apt-get

Written on January 17th, 2011 at 12:20 pm by shredder12

Debian package management provide with you with immense capabilities. Using the --print-uris options, we can get a lot of useful information about the package, rather than installing it. It tells us about the package download location/URL, name, size and MD5 or SHA sum for archive integrity. Here is an example.

The Power of Apt

Written on October 27th, 2009 at 15:44 pm by shredder12

Apt, advanced packaging tool is a package management tool for Debian based systems. I have been using Ubuntu for more than 2 years and have become a great fan of apt. For those of you who know apt only as apt-get install/remove, are missing out on a lot of features provided by apt. This is a small article about some of those features.

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