PKG-INFO(8)

💖 pkg info — display information for packages 💖

pkg-info(8) has entered the group chat, bestie, and she's here to spill all the deets on pkg info — the tool for displaying information for packages. It's giving package-info desk, no cap. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here are the exact invocation shapes, preserved character-for-character:

pkg info pkg-name
pkg info -a
pkg info [-ABbDdefIklOpqRrs] [-Cgix] pkg-name
pkg info [-ABbDdfIlpqRrs] -F pkg-file

pkg info pkg-name
pkg info --all
pkg info [--{annotations,provided-shlibs,required-shlibs}]
    [--{pkg-message,dependencies,exists,full,comment,locked}]
    [--{list-files,by-origin,quiet,prefix,raw,required-by,size}]
    [--{case-sensitive,glob,case-insensitive,regex}] pkg-name
pkg info [--{annotations,provided-shlibs,required-shlibs}]
    [--{pkg-message,dependencies,full,comment,list-files}]
    [--{quiet,prefix,raw,required-by,size}] --file pkg-file
    [--raw-format format]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pkg info is used for displaying information for packages. That's the whole vibe: package deets on demand, served fresh. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

The following options are supported by pkg info:

• -A, --annotations — display any annotations added to the package. 💖
• -a, --all — display all installed packages. 👑
• -B, --required-shlibs — display all shared libraries used by pkg-name. 🦋
• -b, --provided-shlibs — display all shared libraries provided by pkg-name. 🌸
• -C, --case-sensitive — make the standard or the regular expression (-x) matching against pkg-name case sensitive. 🔥
• -D, --pkg-message — show the pkg-message for matching packages. 💌
• -d, --dependencies — display the list of packages on which pkg-name depends. 🧚
• -E, --show-name-only — hides the full package output and only shows the package name. This option is deprecated and exists only for Ports compatibility. 💀
• -e, --exists — if pkg-name is installed and registered in the database, return 0, otherwise return 1. Useful for checking whether the package is installed. ✅
• -F pkg-file, --file pkg-file — displays information from the package archive pkg-file. 📦
• -f, --full — display full information about the packages matching pkg-name. This is the default. ⭐
• -g, --glob — treat pkg-name as a shell glob pattern. 🌈
• -I, --comment — display the specified packages and their comments. 💬
• -i, --case-insensitive — make the standard or the regular expression (-x) matching against pkg-name case insensitive. This is the default, unless modified by setting CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH to true in pkg.conf. 🫶
• -k, --locked — show the locking status for pkg-name. When used in combination with -d or -r, indicate which packages, dependencies or requirements are locked by '(*)'. Locking status is only meaningful for installed packages; all locking statuses will show as unlocked when information about a pkg-file is queried. 🔒
• -l, --list-files — display all files installed by pkg-name. 📁
• -O, --by-origin — search is done by the pkg-name origin. Added only for Ports compatibility. 🧭
• -o, --origin — display the pkg-name origin. 🌱
• -p, --prefix — display the installation prefix for each package matching pkg-name. 🏠
• -q, --quiet — be “quiet”. Prints only the requested information without displaying many hints. 🤫
• -R, --raw — display the full manifest (raw) for the packages matching pkg-name. 📜
• -r, --required-by — display the list of packages which require pkg-name. 💞
• --raw-format format — choose the format of the raw output. The format can be: ucl (default), json, json-compact, yaml. 🎨
• -s, --size — display the total size of files installed by pkg-name. 📏
• -x, --regex — treat pkg-name as a regular expression according to the "modern" or "extended" syntax of re_format(7). 🧠

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💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg info. See pkg.conf(5) for further description.

• PKG_DBDIR
• CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH

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🌈 FILES 🌈

See pkg.conf(5).

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• pkg_create(3)
• pkg_printf(3)
• pkg_repo_create(3)
• pkg_repos(3)
• pkg-keywords(5)
• pkg-lua-script(5)
• pkg-repository(5)
• pkg-script(5)
• pkg-triggers(5)
• pkg.conf(5)
• pkg(8)
• pkg-add(8)
• pkg-alias(8)
• pkg-annotate(8)
• pkg-audit(8)
• pkg-autoremove(8)
• pkg-check(8)
• pkg-clean(8)
• pkg-config(8)
• pkg-create(8)
• pkg-delete(8)
• pkg-fetch(8)
• pkg-help(8)
• pkg-install(8)
• pkg-key(8)
• pkg-lock(8)
• pkg-plugins(8)
• pkg-query(8)
• pkg-register(8)
• pkg-repo(8)
• pkg-repositories(8)
• pkg-rquery(8)
• pkg-search(8)
• pkg-set(8)
• pkg-shell(8)
• pkg-shlib(8)
• pkg-ssh(8)
• pkg-stats(8)
• pkg-triggers(8)
• pkg-unregister(8)
• pkg-update(8)
• pkg-updating(8)
• pkg-upgrade(8)
• pkg-version(8)
• pkg-which(8)

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That's the whole page, bestie! Source/version: Debian; date: December 1, 2014. Go off and pkg info responsibly — mwah! 💅✨