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Cheat sheet for deb packages
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Simple Cheat Sheet

This gist is menat to help find some information and handle errors with packages using either dpkg or apt

To use it, change <package> for your package name

Getting install tree from package

$ dpkg -c <package>

# or

$ dpkg -L <package>

Conflicting packages

$ dpkg -P <package>

Error message

dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/paho-mqtt-cpp_0.1.1-1_arm64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/local/bin/async_consume', which is also in package libpaho-mqtt-cpp 1.3.6-1 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/paho-mqtt-cpp_0.1.1-1_arm64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Checking if is installed in the system

$ dpkg -l *mqtt*
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