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--- ubuntu:apt:display_details_about_a_package [2023/06/18 15:31] – created peter
+++ ubuntu:apt:display_details_about_a_package [2023/06/18 16:35] (current) – peter
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 ====== Ubuntu - apt - Display details about a package ======
-To show or see information about the given package(s) including its dependencies, installation and download size, sources the package is available from, the description of the packages content and much more:
+To show or see information about the given package(s) including its dependencies, installation and download size, sources the package is available from, the description of the packages content and much more.
+  * Works like **apt-cache show** but hide some details that people are less likely to care about (like the hashes).
+  * The full record is still available via **apt-cache show** of course.
+----
 <code bash>
-apt show [package]
+apt show [package name]
 </code>
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 N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it
+</code>
+<WRAP info>
+**NOTE:**  Notice the last sentence.
+</WRAP>
+----
+===== Display all package information =====
+<code bash>
+apt show sudo -a
+</code>
+returns:
+<code bash>
+Package: sudo
+Version: 1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4
+Priority: important
+Section: admin
+Origin: Ubuntu
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+Original-Maintainer: Sudo Maintainers <sudo@packages.debian.org>
+Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
+Installed-Size: 2,568 kB
+Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2), libpam-modules, lsb-base
+Conflicts: sudo-ldap
+Replaces: sudo-ldap
+Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/
+Task: minimal, server-minimal
+Download-Size: 821 kB
+APT-Manual-Installed: no
+APT-Sources: http://je.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
+Description: Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
+ Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root
+ privileges to users and log root activity.  The basic philosophy is to give
+ as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
+ .
+ This version is built with minimal shared library dependencies, use the
+ sudo-ldap package instead if you need LDAP support for sudoers.
+Package: sudo
+Version: 1.9.9-1ubuntu2
+Priority: important
+Section: admin
+Origin: Ubuntu
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+Original-Maintainer: Sudo Maintainers <sudo@packages.debian.org>
+Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
+Installed-Size: 2,564 kB
+Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2), libpam-modules, lsb-base
+Conflicts: sudo-ldap
+Replaces: sudo-ldap
+Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/
+Task: minimal, server-minimal
+Download-Size: 820 kB
+APT-Sources: http://je.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
+Description: Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
+ Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root
+ privileges to users and log root activity.  The basic philosophy is to give
+ as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
+ .
+ This version is built with minimal shared library dependencies, use the
+ sudo-ldap package instead if you need LDAP support for sudoers.
 </code>