Question: How Do I Find Installed Programs on Ubuntu?

James H. Sterling
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Contents How Do I See All Installed Programs in Ubuntu? Open up Ubuntu Software Center. Go to Installed Tab and in the Search, Simply Type * (Asterick), the...

Question: How Do I Find Installed Programs on Ubuntu?
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How do I see all 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.

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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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