Packages, dependencies and repositories

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Step 3 of 8 · on a machine · 3 min

Look inside the archive

You can read an archive before installing it: what it holds and what it needs from the system.

Reading changes nothing in the system, so it needs no sudo.

Exercise · look

You are in /srv/package-lab. Read the description of the lab-pkg-report archive and its file list. Install nothing.

First, predict

The archive holds a shell script and a text settings file. What will dpkg -I show in the Architecture field?

Now start the exercise, run the command and compare your prediction with the output.

Ubuntu 24.04