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equery — View information about Portage packages. More information: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Equery>.

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Problem

How to use the equery command: View information about Portage packages. More information: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Equery>.

Solution

equery — View information about Portage packages. More information: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Equery>.

List all installed packages:
equery list '*'


Search for installed packages in the Portage tree and in overlays:
equery list -po {{package1 package2 ...}}


List all packages that depend on a given package:
equery depends {{package}}


List all packages that a given package depends on:
equery depgraph {{package}}


List all files installed by a package:
equery files --tree {{package}}

Code Snippets

List all installed packages

equery list '*'

Search for installed packages in the Portage tree and in overlays

equery list -po {{package1 package2 ...}}

List all packages that depend on a given package

equery depends {{package}}

List all packages that a given package depends on

equery depgraph {{package}}

List all files installed by a package

equery files --tree {{package}}

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