How do I list the files installed by a deb package?

Solution 1:

Yes, use the dpkg command like

dpkg -L hadoop-0.20

The converse question (finding the package providing a given file) is answered with e.g.

dpkg -S /usr/include/gc/gc.h

Read more about Debian packaging related tools.

P.S. Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions, e.g Mint) is a derivative of Debian.

Solution 2:

What files are installed on your system varies from package to package. To be 100% sure you should take a look into the .deb package yourself. Download the package first.

First you need to extract the .deb archive:

ar vx mypackage.deb

Now this should result in three new files: debian-binary, control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz. You're interested in the last one.

Now you can extract it as well using tar:

tar xzvf data.tar.gz

Now you can browse the package content freely. Look for any makefiles, install scripts and such like to see where things gets installed.

Solution 3:

You can list the installed files for a package by passing the --listfile flag to dpkg. For example, if your package is actually named "hadoop-0.20" then: