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I just installed a package from Ubuntu software called gstreamer. Is there any general way that I can see what commands are run by the Ubuntu software center when installing a package so that we can regenerate them inside our scripts?

I am troubled finding the command line equivalent for these sort of installations.

I tried to grep a list of installed packages but it returns many packages with that keyword.

sudo apt list --installed | grep gstreamer

Does this mean that when we install gstreamer from Ubuntu software all these packages are installed automatically?

Is there a general solution for all packages? That is to see what commands are run behind the scene when we install a package using Ubuntu Software.

PouJa
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  • There is not. 2) No, that's not what it means. 3) You seem to be assuming that shell commands are run behind the scenes, which is often not a valid assumption. You CAN monitor the chatter between Ubuntu Software and aptdaemon using the plain old dbus-monitor command...but it's machine talk, not trivial for humans to parse.
    • – user535733 Feb 06 '22 at 04:11
  • You could always look in logs (/var/log/apt/history.log) to see what deb packages were installed; but Ubuntu Software allows you to install different types of packages, so that log for example will show only deb packages. – guiverc Feb 06 '22 at 04:17
  • Does this answer your question? How do I install applications in Ubuntu? – N0rbert Feb 06 '22 at 06:51
  • @user535733 I will try to have look at dbus-monitor. Thank you. – PouJa Feb 06 '22 at 17:17
  • @guiverc I couldn't find anyhting useful in that history.log. Could you explain specifically? – PouJa Feb 06 '22 at 17:18
  • @N0rbert No this is not what I exactly want. I need to now the name of the package in apt repository. The Ubuntu Software shows a commercial sort of name. Usually by that name we cannot install a package from command line because we would get package not found error! – PouJa Feb 06 '22 at 17:20