List Files from a .deb Package in Ubuntu Linux

Posted on by Eric Ma In QA

How to list all files from a .deb package like rpm -ql on RPM based systems?

Use this command

dpkg -L pkg_name

-L lists files:

-L, --listfiles package-name...
    List files installed to your system from package-name.

More on the dpkg command, check dpkg manual.

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