Ubuntu – Finding how many times a given package has been installed

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Is there any way to see how many times a package in the repos (say, firefox) has been installed?

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I don't know if the repositories keep track of download counts, but Debian based systems have a (voluntary?) program known as the popularity contest. The Ubuntu popularity contest stats can be found at http://popcon.ubuntu.com/. It tracks installation counts, recency of usage, etc. You might be able to indirectly get the numbers you need from popcon.

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Ubuntu – How to check if a LaTeX package has been installed

If you know the name of the .sty or .cls file from the package, you can do

kpsewhich <filename>

and it show you the location of the file where Latex system finds the file. If kpsewhich doesn't find it, you probably didn't install the files correctly or didn't run mktexlsr or texhash.

Also, please show us the output of

echo $TEXINPUTS

from the commandline.

Ubuntu – How to check what was installed for an apt package

The following command will list all files installed by the package autojump:

dpkg -L autojump

It is a dpkg command because dpkg is actually responsible for installing packages, apt just a frontend that runs dpkg.

For completeness, there is also the reverse command:

dpkg -S file

This will give you all packages which contain something named file (this can also be a single part of a path).

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