[SOLVED] List files in uninstalled packages?

littlebigman · 10-06-2022, 07:35 AM

Hello,

Before possibly installing them, I need to check what files are provided by php-5.6 and php-5.6-fpm.

Apparently, older packages are removed at some point from the official Debian repo, so I tried Ondrej Surý's… but no go:

Code:

apt-get install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/nginx-mainline

apt-get update
apt-file update

EMPTY apt-file list php5.6
EMPTY 5.6 apt-cache search php | grep php-
EMPTY apt-cache search php | grep 5.6

What's the right way to find what files are provided by an uninstalled package?

Thank you.

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Edit:

Code:

~# apt-get install --dry-run php5.6 php5.6-fpm
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-fpm
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php5.6-fpm'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php5.6-fpm'

~#apt-cache policy php5.6

php5.6-json:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
php5.6-common:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:


~# grep ^[^#] /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb-src http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ondrej-ubuntu-nginx-mainline-kinetic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/nginx-mainline/ubuntu kinetic main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ondrej-ubuntu-php-kinetic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu kinetic main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ondrej-ubuntu-php-kinetic.list.save:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu kinetic main

~# hostnamectl

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-18-amd64
Architecture: x86-64

littlebigman · 10-06-2022, 08:31 AM

This did it to list packages(with some warnings I'll look into later):

Code:

apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates lsb-release apt-transport-https
sh -c 'echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list' 
wget -qO - https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | apt-key add - 

apt-get update
apt-file update
apt-cache search php | grep 5.6

Still no way to know what files are in an uninstalled package.

littlebigman · 10-06-2022, 08:40 AM

Found it:

Code:

~# apt-get download php5.6
~# dpkg -c php5.6_5.6.40-63+0~20220929.69+debian11~1.gbp639d4c_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/bug/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/bug/php5.6/
-rw-r--r-- root/root        25 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/bug/php5.6/control
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/doc/php5.6/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       480 2022-09-18 14:52 ./usr/share/doc/php5.6/NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     82584 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/doc/php5.6/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root    178252 2022-09-30 00:13 ./usr/share/doc/php5.6/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     21026 2022-09-18 14:52 ./usr/share/doc/php5.6/copyright

Strangely enough, the PHP5.6 package contains no binaries… but that's for another forum.

HTH,