Objective
The objective of this article is to provide an Ubuntu user with information on how to list installed packages on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Requirements
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo
command may be required.
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudo
command - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
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Instructions
There are several ways on how to list installed packages on Ubuntu 18.04 Linux. First, we will show how to list installed packages relevant to your graphical user interface (GUI).
After that we will see how to list installed packages using command line. Command line in this case is much more powerful tool to use as it will list all installed packages.
List installed packages using GUI
To list installed packages on a Ubuntu 18.04 running a default graphical interface GNOME navigate to Activities
and search for term software
:
Keep reading if you wish to list all installed packages on your Ubuntu 18.04.
List installed packages using command line
Using command line will give user more precise results. There are several ways how to list installed packages on Ubuntu system. The first tool we are going to look at is apt
. The below apt
command will list all installed packages as well as its version number:
$ apt list --installed
Alternative to the above command is the dpkg
command. The next command will list installed packages, including version number, architecture and short package description:
$ dpkg -l | grep ^ii
The following linux command will count all installed packages:
$ dpkg -l | grep ^ii | wc -l 495
Note, if you are searching for a particular package name, then use grep
command to search for its name. For example let’s search for a package wget
to see whether it is installed:
$ dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep -i wget ii wget 1.19.4-1ubuntu2 amd64 retrieves files from the web
If the above command does not produce any output it means that the wget
package is not installed yet.