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Installation of packages can be sometimes hard. Sometimes one has questions like "I knew a file named A on my machine, what would be the package-name on another machine with a different system which provides the file". This table tries to help to answer questions like this.
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Nomenclatur: _filename_ and _package_name_ below can also be a on a part or substring of a file- or package-name especially for some the search commands.
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| | General | ubuntu/debian | openSUSE/SLES | Arch |
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| find out the OS version | `cat /etc/os-release` | | | |
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| find out the origin file or alias of a command | `type `_command-name_ | | | |
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| locate an existing file | `locate `_filename_ | | | |
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| install a package | | `apt install` _package_name_ | `zypper in `_package_name_ | `pacman -Suy `_package_name_ **or with aur** |
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| fuzzy search for a package-name | | `apt search `_package_name_ | `zypper se `_package_name_ | `pacman -Ss` _package_name_ |
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| List all installed packages | | `dpkg -l` | `zypper se -i `**or** `rpm -qa` | `pacman -Q` |
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| Find out the package-name a certain installed file belongs to | | `dpkg -S` _path_ **or**` apt-file search` _path_ | `rpm -qf `_path_ | `pacman -Qo` _path_ |
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| List all files included in an installed package | | `dpkg -L` _package_name_ | `rpm -ql` _package_name_ | `pacman -Ql` _package_name_ |
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| Website to search for packages | | <https://packages.ubuntu.com/> <https://packages.debian.org/index> | <https://software.opensuse.org/explore> | <https://archlinux.org/packages/> <https://aur.archlinux.org/> |
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| | General | ubuntu/debian | openSUSE/SLES | Fedora | Redhat/Centos | Arch | Mac |
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| find out the OS version | `cat /etc/os-release` | | | | | | |
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| find out the origin file or alias of a command | `type `_command-name_ | | | | | | |
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| locate an existing file | `locate `_filename_ | | | | | | |
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| install a package | | `apt install` _package_name_ | `zypper in `_package_name_ | | | `pacman -Suy `_package_name_ **or with aur** | |
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| fuzzy search for a package-name | | `apt search `_package_name_ | `zypper se `_package_name_ | | | `pacman -Ss` _package_name_ | |
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| List all installed packages | | `dpkg -l` | `zypper se -i `**or** `rpm -qa` | | | `pacman -Q` | |
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| Find out the package-name a certain installed file belongs to | | `dpkg -S` _path_ **or**` apt-file search` _path_ | `rpm -qf `_path_ | | | `pacman -Qo` _path_ | |
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| List all files included in an installed package | | `dpkg -L` _package_name_ | `rpm -ql` _package_name_ | | | `pacman -Ql` _package_name_ | |
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| Website to search for packages | | <https://packages.ubuntu.com/> <https://packages.debian.org/index> | <https://software.opensuse.org/explore> | | | <https://archlinux.org/packages/> <https://aur.archlinux.org/> | |
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