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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:
- Locate the file /etc/apt/sources. list .
- 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.
- Verify the package became available using $ apt-cache policy libgmp-dev.