How Do I See a List of Installed Programs in Linux?

Maya Lin-Takahashi
Maya Lin-Takahashi
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Contents How Do I Get a List of Installed Programs in Linux? 4 Answers Aptitude-Based Distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Etc): Dpkg -L. Rpm-Based Distributions...

How Do I See a List of Installed Programs in Linux?
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How do I get a list of installed programs in Linux?

4 Answers

  1. Aptitude-based distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, etc): dpkg -l.
  2. RPM-based distributions (Fedora, RHEL, etc): rpm -qa.
  3. pkg*-based distributions (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc): pkg_info.
  4. Portage-based distributions (Gentoo, etc): equery list or eix -I.
  5. pacman-based distributions (Arch Linux, etc): pacman -Q.

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How do I see installed programs in Ubuntu?

Open up Ubuntu software center. Go to Installed tab and in the search, simply type * (asterick), the software center will show up all the installed software by category.

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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