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Gaurav Agarwal
Asked: 2012-11-29 05:28:14 +0800 CST

How do I check if a package is available for install?

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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Amazon EC2 instance along with Tomcat and MySql. Tomcat, Java and MySql packages were available along with Ubuntu and I didn't have to download them.

Now I wish to install Percona Xtrabackup to my Server.

Now, how do I find if a certain package is already available with the installation or I have to install it externally?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    apt-cache search <name>

    Will give you a list of available packages matching the name.

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