Where Is Debian Package Installed?

Where Is Debian Package Installed?
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Documentation goes in /usr/share/doc/ , so expects documentation will be found in /usr/share/doc/expect . There may be multiple example subdirectories below that, along with other directories which may contain runnable code.

How do I find where a package is installed in Linux?

1. b) Using whereis command. The ‘whereis’ command is used to search the binary, source, and man page files for a given command. If the following output shows the location of a given package binary or executable file, the given package is already installed on the system.

How do I find my Debian repository?

make sure you have that repository available:

  1. Locate the file /etc/apt/sources. list .
  2. Run # apt-get update. to fetch the package list from that repository and adding the list of available packages from it to the local APT’s cache.
  3. Verify the package became available using $ apt-cache policy libgmp-dev.
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