# .deb paketų instaliavimas, -i arba --install
$ dpkg -i man-db_2.6.2-1_amd64.deb
# -P --purge
# Pilnas paketo ištrinimas
$ dpkg -P debian-cd
# -L --listfiles
# Visų paketo dokumentų atvaizdavimas sistemoje
$ dpkg -L nmap
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/nmap
...
# -S --search
# Suranda paketus kuriuose yra dokumentas
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/nmap
nmap: /usr/bin/nmap
# -s --status
# atvaizduoja paketo statusą
$ dpkg -s nmap
Package: nmap
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 6751
....
# -l --list
# sistemoje įdiegti paketai
$ dpkg -l nma*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii nmap 5.21-1.1ubuntu1 The Network Mapper
# -c --contents
# atvaizduos .deb paketo dokumentus
$ dpkg -c virtualbox-4.3_4.3.14-95030~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-15 21:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-15 21:58 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-15 21:59 ./etc/init.d/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 12680 2014-07-15 21:59 ./etc/init.d
...
# -I --info
# atvaizduos .deb paketo atraštę
$ dpkg -I virtualbox-4.3_4.3.14-95030~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 71799552 bytes: control archive= 22979 bytes.
118 bytes, 4 lines conffiles
1382 bytes, 20 lines control
58584 bytes, 636 lines md5sums
14570 bytes, 365 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
2135 bytes, 59 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh
3335 bytes, 98 lines * preinst #!/bin/bash
3100 bytes, 100 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
4666 bytes, 107 lines templates
Package: virtualbox-4.3
Version: 4.3.14-95030~Debian~wheezy
...
# Naudojama architektūrą
$ dpkg --print-architecture
amd64
# Kitos architektūros
$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
i386
