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Use dpkg to find out the files and directories created by a package at the time of install

Written on January 2nd, 2011 at 20:13 pm by shredder12

Whenever we install an application, it automatically creates a lot of files and directories on our system related to it. For debian systems, we can use the dpkg tool to find out all the files created and added by an application at the time of install.

A dpkg trick for fresh installations

Written on December 28th, 2009 at 18:00 pm by shredder12

After every fresh install, I used to download all the necessary packages that I had in the previous installation. This was definitely not easy, I could hardly remember half of them and it used to take a lot of time. But by using using dpkg we can do it in a few commands. Chk it out.

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