To show or see information about the given package(s) including its dependencies, installation and download size, sources the package is available from, the description of the packages content and much more.
apt-cache show [package name]
apt-cache show sudo
returns:
Package: sudo Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4 Priority: important Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Sudo Maintainers <sudo@packages.debian.org> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2508 Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2), libpam-modules, lsb-base Conflicts: sudo-ldap Replaces: sudo-ldap Filename: pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb Size: 820584 MD5sum: 47ba5a9120282af2f9d3ca5595199e05 SHA1: df437fbf2d018005da46b705d0b43ec6256de0ca SHA256: 42638252009ddc23e707dda08fad948c85ed925f2df8fdc1e3d8353d61a920f3 SHA512: 848f5ba5ef22b3b10039bb9fc51bf2b0934630a44621086c25fae47ebd4f7ac8e3821546a633d76481d3c66d8b65edcafd06cb1bff5131fd83e0bbd51307f5f1 Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/ Description-en: Provide limited super user privileges to specific users Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. . This version is built with minimal shared library dependencies, use the sudo-ldap package instead if you need LDAP support for sudoers. Description-md5: acd82d558698567df941afe9b1ac35df Task: minimal, server-minimal Package: sudo Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.9-1ubuntu2 Priority: important Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Sudo Maintainers <sudo@packages.debian.org> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2504 Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2), libpam-modules, lsb-base Conflicts: sudo-ldap Replaces: sudo-ldap Filename: pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.9.9-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 820274 MD5sum: 4b174daa855fb95bfa585df9eb2874b5 SHA1: 01d72e294955f0cf578b5344272846c38dd4031e SHA256: 869d850758d9223f3f6d5d2e31e1d3151034f47cfdb3220357255d2f2b81747e SHA512: be66dbad8cf34a2cf1c9a4120a403a4a312bce687dea7cf60c1bdb3b53bd4e6408b97d2d8d64531aa9a9144aa972260742c3210f73169bbf8e4920f283dbcb8e Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/ Description-en: Provide limited super user privileges to specific users Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. . This version is built with minimal shared library dependencies, use the sudo-ldap package instead if you need LDAP support for sudoers. Description-md5: acd82d558698567df941afe9b1ac35df Task: minimal, server-minimal