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I was wondering how to get the information about a package in the terminal, before installation with apt install so that I can decide whether to install it, based on the description.


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Use 



 apt-cache show PACKAGE


to see the description and some other information about package after its installed 



 dpkg -L package_name


to see what files the package contains.


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