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Checking what software is installed

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Checking what software is installed

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- [Narrator] Using the APT software, it's pretty easy to find a list of packages that are installed on your system. To do that, we can use the list command. Alright, apt list --installed. If I left it as just list, I'd see a list of all the packages in the repositories. So I want to narrow it down with installed. And here's the list, I can see the package name and then after the slash, the repositories where the package is from, the installed version, the architecture of the package, and the status. Because we filtered the list by installed packages, we see that all of these packages are listed as installed. But some are also upgradeable. Later when we see how to upgrade packages, those are the ones that'll get newer versions. If you're curious about an installed package, you can use the apt show command to find out about it. And if you're curious exactly what a package installed on your system, you can check that out with dpkg -L. Let's take a look and see what nano installed. And…

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