
Use the ‘ showpkg‘ sub command to check the dependencies for particular software packages. How Do I Check Dependencies for Specific Packages? This is a "dummy" package that depends on lenny's default version of $ apt-cache show netcat Package: netcatįilename: pool/universe/n/netcat/netcat_1.10-40_all.deb How Do I Check Package Information?įor example, if you would like to check information of package along with it short description say (version number, check sums, size, installed size, category etc).

To find and list down all the packages starting with ‘ vsftpd‘, you could use the following command.
