sudo apt-get install <package name>=<version> Example: $ sudo apt-get install gparted=0.16.1-1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done …

Sep 17, 2014 · sudo apt-get update then cleanup any partial packages . sudo apt-get autoclean Now clean the apt cache. sudo apt-get clean Now remove any unnecessary dependancies . …

apt-file search part_of_package_name | grep another_part_of_name Example of searching for ssh server package if I do not know the name is ssh-server or sshserver or server-ssh etc.: apt …

apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential git libjpeg-dev and then I simply installed python3 and it seems it automatically got python 3.5: apt-get install python3 apt-get install …

Also worth adding, as explained in the apt-preferences docs, that Phased Updates depend upon each machine's Machine ID, which maybe found (and potentially altered/copied - but generally …

Aug 23, 2014 · sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get -f install sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Install ubuntu toolchain from PPA. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain …

May 29, 2014 · apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and a subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool, madison. It displays available …

I tried both apt-cache show and apt-cache showpkg but no luck. Using synaptic it's easy as typing the package name and the description is given by the standard view, but sometimes I'd prefer …

Dec 11, 2010 · apt-mark showmanual lists manually installed packages; ie. those that should never be auto-removed. grep " install " /var/log/dpkg.log is taken from the accepted answer. …

Apr 30, 2014 · As an alternative to lgarzo's answer, you can grep what you are interested in from /var/log/dpkg.log.E.g., if you want to see everything you installed or upgraded yesterday, you …