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Asked: 2016-07-05 22:12:19 +0800 CST

Where are packages stored installed with APT in Ubuntu 16.04?

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I know that packages installed with apt-get are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives. I just installed mariadb server in Ubuntu 16.04 with following command:

sudo apt install mariadb-server

When I tried to find packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, there are no packages. Where are they stored if it's not in this directory?

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    If you use apt instead of apt-get, the default is not to store debs anywhere if the apt install is successful.

    From /usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz:

    apt (1.2~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

    [ Automatic removal of debs after install ] After packages are successfully installed by apt(8), the corresponding .deb package files will be removed from the /var/cache/apt/archives cache directory.

    This can be changed by setting the apt configuration option Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages to true. E.g:

    # echo 'Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";' \
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01keep-debs

    Please note that the behavior of apt-get is unchanged. The downloaded debs will be kept in the cache directory after they are installed. To enable the behavior for other tools, you can set APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages to false.

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