在安装之前获取有关软件包的详细信息吗？
Answers:
最快的方法是使用终端apt-cache并获得一点信任 ；）
apt-cache show mc
Package: mc
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 1434
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian MC Packaging Group <pkg-mc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3:4.8.13-3
Provides: mcedit
Depends: e2fslibs (>= 1.37), libc6 (>= 2.15), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.5), mc-data (= 3:4.8.13-3)
Recommends: mime-support, perl, unzip
Suggests: arj, bzip2, catdvi | texlive-binaries, dbview, djvulibre-bin, file, genisoimage, gv, imagemagick, links | w3m | lynx, odt2txt, poppler-utils, python, python-boto, python-tz, xpdf | pdf-viewer, zip
Filename: pool/universe/m/mc/mc_4.8.13-3_amd64.deb
Size: 464160
MD5sum: 8bb8f947d50bcba2f68d2b66a66963c1
SHA1: c61ad7e5581ee46619069c0435c54be5e1fc34c7
SHA256: 21557289003bd195ff5a0212a00365067c5d15f0f9767556512c09da96a012d5
Description-en: Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager
GNU Midnight Commander is a text-mode full-screen file manager. It
uses a two panel interface and a subshell for command execution. It
includes an internal editor with syntax highlighting and an internal
viewer with support for binary files. Also included is Virtual
Filesystem (VFS), that allows files on remote systems (e.g. FTP, SSH
servers) and files inside archives to be manipulated like real files.
Description-md5: 252a5c5aeeb7425db45357d4ab8aa55f
Homepage: http://www.midnight-commander.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
另一种可能性是aptitude，但通常您必须先安装它们：
sudo apt-get install aptitude
并显示包装信息 aptitude show aptitude
Package: aptitude
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 0.6.11-1ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 4.990 k
Depends: aptitude-common (= 0.6.11-1ubuntu3), libapt-pkg4.12 (>= 0.9.16), libboost-iostreams1.55.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcwidget3, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20070908), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.2.0), libsqlite3-0 (>=
3.6.5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9), libtinfo5, libxapian22
Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc, sensible-utils, libparse-debianchangelog-perl
Suggests: tasksel, debtags, apt-xapian-index
Conflicts: aptitude
Provides: aptitude
Provided by: aptitude
Description: terminal-based package manager
aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian
changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken.
Homepage: http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/
我最喜欢的方法
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您可以通过多种方式来执行此操作。在最简单的默认是apt-cache search。
apt-cache search <regex>
它会给你这样的东西：
$ apt-cache search cheese
cheese - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
gir1.2-cheese-3.0 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - gir bindings
libcheese-dev - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base dev
libcheese-doc - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - documentation
libcheese-gtk-dev - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets dev
libcheese-gtk23 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets
libcheese7 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library
cheese-common - Common files for the Cheese tool to take pictures and videos
python-pyip - Python modules for raw ip packet assembling/disassembling
这相当于：
dpkg-query -Wf '${Package} ${binary:Summary}\n'
除非这dpkg-query似乎只对您已经安装的东西起作用。
apt list具有全局搜索（而不是正则表达式），这对大多数用户来说比较自然，但是您不能更改输出格式（尚未）。但是，查看了Source之后，您可以输出摘要：
$ apt list -o 'APT::Cmd::List-Include-Summary=1' *cheese*
Listing... Done
cheese/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
cheese-common/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 all
Common files for the Cheese tool to take pictures and videos
gir1.2-cheese-3.0/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - gir bindings
libcheese-dev/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base dev
libcheese-doc/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 all
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - documentation
libcheese-gtk-dev/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets dev
libcheese-gtk23/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets
libcheese7/trusty 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library
使用option参数有点麻烦，但是如果您愿意，可以很容易地为它加上别名。
并且aptitude可以提供帮助：
$ aptitude search cheese
p cheese - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
p cheese:i386 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
p cheese-common - Common files for the Cheese tool to take pictures and videos
v cheese-common:i386 -
p gir1.2-cheese-3.0 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - gir bindings
p gir1.2-cheese-3.0:i386 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - gir bindings
p libcheese-dev - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base dev
p libcheese-dev:i386 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base dev
p libcheese-doc - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - documentation
p libcheese-gtk-dev - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets dev
p libcheese-gtk-dev:i386 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets dev
p libcheese-gtk23 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets
p libcheese-gtk23:i386 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets
p libcheese7 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library
p libcheese7:i386 - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library
apt-cache search <command>帮助吗？