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Rilcon42
Asked: 2017-10-05 07:54:50 +0800 CST

How to find specific package name from list of installed packages

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I am trying to remove an old version of eclipse (3.8), but I don't know the package name. Can someone explain how to correctly find the package name?

I tried this, but when I did autoremove on those names it couldnt find the package:

king@king-Inspiron-7352 ~ $ apt list --installed |grep eclipse

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eclipse-jdt/xenial,xenial,now 3.8.1-8 all [installed,automatic]
eclipse-pde/xenial,now 3.8.1-8 amd64 [installed,automatic]
eclipse-platform/xenial,now 3.8.1-8 amd64 [installed,automatic]
eclipse-platform-data/xenial,xenial,now 3.8.1-8 all [installed,automatic]
eclipse-rcp/xenial,now 3.8.1-8 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libeclipse-aether-java/xenial,xenial,now 1.0.2-1 all [installed,automatic]
libeclipselink-java/xenial,xenial,now 2.5.1-3 all [installed,automatic]
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try according to these commands:

    Identify the program,

    which eclipse

    Look for the package using the output of the which command line for the path

    dpkg -S /path/eclipse

    I think the package name is eclipse. You can run

    apt-cache policy eclipse

    to see the versions. It seems to me that the version, that you have, 3.8.1-8, is the current one in 16.04.x LTS.

    (I have not installed eclipse, but apt-cache shows the 'candidate' to be installed.)

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