apt install --only-upgrade <package name>

• Interactive interface aptitude

• Find package aptitude search <name>

• Install package apt install <name>

• Reinstall package aptitude reinstall <name>

• Install local package dpkg -i package.deb

  • If the installation raises dependency errors then run apt-get install -f.

• Remove package apt remove <name>

• Remove package with its dependencies apt autoremove <name>

• What packages are upgradable? apt list --upgradable

• apt-get --purge remove <package> -y

$ dpkg -x <file> /extract/to/directory $ for file_str in ./*; do echo "Processing file: $file_str..."; dpkg -x $file_str ./unpacked;done

For Linux operative systems with no support for dpkg.

• ar -xv <deb file>
• x extract
• v verbose
• --output=<directory>
• for file_str in ./package.deb; do if [ "$file_str" != "__unpacked__" ]; then mkdir -p ./unpacked/$file_str && cd ./unpacked/$file_str && echo "Processing file: ../../$file_str" && ar -xv ../../$file_str && cd ../..; fi done
• Use unxz to extract xz files.
• Use tar -xf <file> to extract tar files.