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NAME

       dpkg-query - a tool to query the dpkg database

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-query [option...] command

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-query is a tool to show information about packages listed in the dpkg database.

COMMANDS

       -l, --list [package-name-pattern...]
              List  all known packages matching one or more patterns, regardless of their status,
              which  includes  any  real  or  virtual  package  referenced  in   any   dependency
              relationship field (such as Breaks, Enhances, etc.).  If no package-name-pattern is
              given, list all packages in /var/lib/dpkg/status, excluding the ones marked as not-
              installed  (i.e.   those which have been previously purged).  Normal shell wildcard
              characters are allowed in package-name-pattern.  Please note you will probably have
              to  quote  package-name-pattern  to  prevent  the  shell  from  performing filename
              expansion.  For example this will list all package names starting with “libc6”:

                dpkg-query -l 'libc6*'

              The first three columns of the output show the desired action, the package  status,
              and errors, in that order.

              Desired action:
                u = Unknown
                i = Install
                h = Hold
                r = Remove
                p = Purge

              Package status:
                n = Not-installed
                c = Config-files
                H = Half-installed
                U = Unpacked
                F = Half-configured
                W = Triggers-awaiting
                t = Triggers-pending
                i = Installed

              Error flags:
                <empty> = (none)
                R = Reinst-required

              An uppercase status or error letter indicates the package is likely to cause severe
              problems. Please refer to dpkg(1) for information about the above states and flags.

              The output format of this option is not configurable, but varies  automatically  to
              fit  the  terminal  width.  It  is  intended  for  human readers, and is not easily
              machine-readable. See -W (--show) and --showformat  for  a  way  to  configure  the
              output format.

       -W, --show [package-name-pattern...]
              Just like the --list option this will list all packages matching the given pattern.
              However the output can be customized using the --showformat  option.   The  default
              output  format  gives  one  line  per  matching  package, each line having the name
              (extended with  the  architecture  qualifier  for  Multi-Arch  same  packages)  and
              installed version of the package, separated by a tab.

       -s, --status [package-name...]
              Report  status  of specified package. This just displays the entry in the installed
              package status database.  If no package-name  is  specified  it  will  display  all
              package entries in the status database (since dpkg 1.19.1).  When multiple package-
              name entries are listed, the requested status entries are  separated  by  an  empty
              line, with the same order as specified on the argument list.

       -L, --listfiles package-name...
              List  files  installed to your system from package-name. When multiple package-name
              are listed, the requested lists of files are separated by an empty line,  with  the
              same  order as specified on the argument list.  However, note that files created by
              package-specific installation-scripts are not listed.

       --control-list package-name
              List control files installed to your system from package-name (since dpkg  1.16.5).
              These can be used as input arguments to --control-show.

       --control-show package-name control-file
              Print  the  control-file installed to your system from package-name to the standard
              output (since dpkg 1.16.5).

       -c, --control-path package-name [control-file]
              List paths for control files installed to your system from package-name (since dpkg
              1.15.4).   If  control-file  is  specified then only list the path for that control
              file if it is present.

              Warning: this command is deprecated as it gives direct access to the internal  dpkg
              database,  please  switch  to use --control-list and --control-show instead for all
              cases where those commands might give the same end result.  Although,  as  long  as
              there  is still at least one case where this command is needed (i.e. when having to
              remove a damaging postrm maintainer script), and while there is  no  good  solution
              for that, this command will not get removed.

       -S, --search filename-search-pattern...
              Search  for  packages  that own files corresponding to the given pattern.  Standard
              shell wildcard characters can be used  in  the  pattern,  where  asterisk  (*)  and
              question  mark  (?) will match a slash, and backslash (\) will be used as an escape
              character.

              If the first character in the filename-search-pattern is none  of  ‘*[?/’  then  it
              will  be  considered a substring match and will be implicitly surrounded by ‘*’ (as
              in *filename-search-pattern*).  If the subsequent string contains  any  of  ‘*[?\’,
              then  it  will handled like a glob pattern, otherwise any trailing ‘/’ or ‘/.’ will
              be removed and a literal path lookup will be performed.

              This command will not list extra files created by maintainer scripts, nor  will  it
              list alternatives.

       -p, --print-avail [package-name...]
              Display  details  about  packages,  as  found  in  /var/lib/dpkg/available.   If no
              package-name is specified, it will display all package  entries  in  the  available
              database (since dpkg 1.19.1).  When multiple package-name are listed, the requested
              available entries are separated by an empty line, with the same order as  specified
              on the argument list.

              Users  of APT-based frontends should use apt-cache show package-name instead as the
              available file is only kept up-to-date when using dselect.

       -?, --help
              Show the usage message and exit.

       --version
              Show the version and exit.

OPTIONS

       --admindir=dir
              Change the location of the dpkg database. The default location is /var/lib/dpkg.

       --load-avail
              Also load the available file when using the --show and --list commands,  which  now
              default to only querying the status file (since dpkg 1.16.2).

       --no-pager
              Disables the use of any pager when showing information (since dpkg 1.19.2).

       -f, --showformat=format
              This  option is used to specify the format of the output --show will produce (short
              option since dpkg 1.13.1).  The format is a string that will  be  output  for  each
              package listed.

              In the format string, “\” introduces escapes:

                  \n  newline
                  \r  carriage return
                  \t  tab

              “\”  before  any  other  character  suppresses any special meaning of the following
              character, which is useful for “\” and “$”.

              Package information can be included by inserting  variable  references  to  package
              fields using the syntax “${field[;width]}”. Fields are printed right-aligned unless
              the width is negative in which case left alignment  will  be  used.  The  following
              fields  are  recognized  but  they are not necessarily available in the status file
              (only internal fields or fields stored in the binary package end up in it):

                  Architecture
                  Bugs
                  Conffiles (internal)
                  Config-Version (internal)
                  Conflicts
                  Breaks
                  Depends
                  Description
                  Enhances
                  Essential
                  Filename (internal, front-end related)
                  Homepage
                  Installed-Size
                  MD5sum (internal, front-end related)
                  MSDOS-Filename (internal, front-end related)
                  Maintainer
                  Origin
                  Package
                  Pre-Depends
                  Priority
                  Provides
                  Recommends
                  Replaces
                  Revision (obsolete)
                  Section
                  Size (internal, front-end related)
                  Source
                  Status (internal)
                  Suggests
                  Tag (usually not in .deb but in repository Packages files)
                  Triggers-Awaited (internal)
                  Triggers-Pending (internal)
                  Version

              The following are virtual fields, generated by dpkg-query from  values  from  other
              fields (note that these do not use valid names for fields in control files):

              binary:Package
                     It  contains  the binary package name with a possible architecture qualifier
                     like “libc6:amd64” (since dpkg 1.16.2).  An architecture qualifier  will  be
                     present to make the package name unambiguous, for example if the package has
                     a Multi-Arch field with a value of same or  the  package  is  of  a  foreign
                     architecture.

              binary:Synopsis
                     It contains the package short description (since dpkg 1.19.1).

              binary:Summary
                     This is an alias for binary:Synopsis (since dpkg 1.16.2).

              db:Status-Abbrev
                     It  contains  the  abbreviated package status (as three characters), such as
                     “ii ” or “iHR” (since dpkg 1.16.2).  See the --list command description  for
                     more details.

              db:Status-Want
                     It  contains the package wanted status, part of the Status field (since dpkg
                     1.17.11).

              db:Status-Status
                     It contains the package status word, part of the Status  field  (since  dpkg
                     1.17.11).

              db:Status-Eflag
                     It  contains  the package status error flag, part of the Status field (since
                     dpkg 1.17.11).

              db-fsys:Files
                     It contains the list of the package filesystem entries separated by newlines
                     (since dpkg 1.19.3).

              db-fsys:Last-Modified
                     It contains the timestamp in seconds of the last time the package filesystem
                     entries were modified (since dpkg 1.19.3).

              source:Package
                     It contains the source package name for  this  binary  package  (since  dpkg
                     1.16.2).

              source:Version
                     It  contains  the source package version for this binary package (since dpkg
                     1.16.2)

              source:Upstream-Version
                     It contains the source package upstream  version  for  this  binary  package
                     (since dpkg 1.18.16)

              The  default  format  string  is  “${binary:Package}\t${Version}\n”.  Actually, all
              other fields found in the status file (i.e. user defined fields) can be  requested,
              too.  They  will be printed as-is, though, no conversion nor error checking is done
              on them. To get the name of the dpkg maintainer  and  the  installed  version,  you
              could run:

                dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:Package} ${Version}\t${Maintainer}\n' dpkg

EXIT STATUS

       0      The requested query was successfully performed.

       1      The  requested  query  failed  either fully or partially, due to no file or package
              being found (except for --control-path, --control-list and --control-show were such
              errors are fatal).

       2      Fatal  or  unrecoverable  error  due to invalid command-line usage, or interactions
              with the system, such as accesses to the database, memory allocations, etc.

ENVIRONMENT

   External environment
       SHELL  Sets the program to execute when  spawning  a  command  via  a  shell  (since  dpkg
              1.19.2).

       PAGER
       DPKG_PAGER
              Sets  the  pager  command  to  use (since dpkg 1.19.1), which will be executed with
              «$SHELL -c».  If SHELL is not set, «sh»  will  be  used  instead.   The  DPKG_PAGER
              overrides the PAGER environment variable (since dpkg 1.19.2).

       DPKG_ADMINDIR
              If  set  and  the  --admindir option has not been specified, it will be used as the
              dpkg data directory.

       DPKG_COLORS
              Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).  The currently accepted values  are:  auto
              (default), always and never.

   Internal environment
       LESS   Defined  by  dpkg-query  to  “-FRSXMQ”,  if  not already set, when spawning a pager
              (since dpkg 1.19.2).  To change the default behavior, this variable can  be  preset
              to some other value including an empty string, or the PAGER or DPKG_PAGER variables
              can be set to disable specific options  with  «-+»,  for  example  DPKG_PAGER="less
              -+F".

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1).