Tuesday, July 25, 2017

command line - How do I confirm that I have found the correct package name?

I appear to be experiencing a bug with 'Backups' and wish to report it. To do so, I must find the package name. However, given a list of possible options, how do I know which one it is?



Namely, I surmise in this case it is 'deja-dup', but I wish to confirm before filing the bug report. How do I so?




$ sudo apt-cache search backups
[sudo] password for user:
backuppc - high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs
deja-dup - Back up your files
rsync - fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
tar - GNU version of the tar archiving utility
[roughly one hundred other options are listed]



Trying a different search method:



$ apt search backups | grep installed | cat -b

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

1 deja-dup/xenial-updates,now 34.2-0ubuntu1.1 amd64 [installed]
2 rsync/xenial-updates,xenial-security,now 3.1.1-3ubuntu1.1 amd64 [installed]
3 tar/xenial-updates,xenial-security,now 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]



My only guess on how to confirm is to try executing the command hoping to open the same 'Backups' Graphical User Interface, but it appears dangerous or poor practice to execute commands without knowing what they will do.

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