I have installed pulseaudio-module-bluetooth using apt.
$ type pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
bash: type: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth: not found
$ which pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
$ whereis pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth:
Clearly, I’m looking for the wrong thing. The package does not simply install a command that is the same name as the package. Alright, then.
I want to find out what all commands (or executables) this package installed, and their locations.
The answers to “How to get information about deb package archive?” tell me how to find the files installed by the package if I have a .deb file. I’m not installing directly from a .deb file, though. I’m using apt. Where is the .deb file that that used? Is there a copy on my system somewhere that I can query with the commands in the answers to that question? Where?
If there isn’t a local copy on my system, can I get one with apt? How?
Is there some handy apt (or similar) command that wraps this up for me, so that I do not have to run dpkg-deb directly? What is it?
Can I find the package’s file list entirely on-line, without explicitly downloading any .deb files and before installing anything with apt? How?
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Method 1
I think there is an existing answer to your question (which isn’t How to get information about deb package archive?), but I can’t find it.
To list the contents of an installed package, use dpkg -L:
dpkg -L pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
If you want to list the contents of a package before installing it, install apt-file, then run apt update, and
apt-file list pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
will list the contents of the package without downloading it or installing it.
You can also view the contents of a package from its web page; look for “list of files” links at the bottom of the page.
Method 2
There is a few approaches here. One of easiest is to download specific package:
cd /tmp/ && apt download pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
and list package content by:
dpkg -c pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-{version_stuff}.deb |grep bin
Method 3
You asked
I want to find out what all commands (or executables) this package
installed, and their locations.
I found this answer from member Evo2 over at linuxquestions.com where he mentions a nice utility called dlocate. dlocate has a nice “-lsbin” option which does exactly that. Since you mention apt I presume you are using a debian derivative, so dlocate should be available for your distro.
For example, if I want to find all executables shipped with libreoffice7.0 I’d do :
root#ychaouche-PC 14:15:15 /opt # dlocate -lsbin libreoffice7.0 /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/minidump_upload /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/oosplash /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/soffice /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/soffice.bin /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/unoinfo /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/unopkg /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/unopkg.bin root#ychaouche-PC 14:19:44 /opt #
Please bare in mind that you need to do an update-dlocate in order for dlocate to work properly.
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