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I wonder is there a website for apt packages similar to https://www.npmjs.com/ where I can read description of all available packages?

I read some manuals how to install some software and it's written there to run sudo apt install something, but I have no idea what that something is needed for. How can I get that information?

RussCoder
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Website

Yes, there is one. http://packages.ubuntu.com

You can search for packages for all supported versions of Ubuntu. For example, to quickly search for the package gimp, you can go to http://packages.ubuntu.com/gimp

Directly using apt

Alternatively, you can search from the package in apt itself.

apt search something shows all packages which has something in its name and description.

apt show exact-packagename-of-something shows all details (description, dependencies, recommended packages, name of the packager) of the package.

Manual pages

As mentioned in the comment by @codlord, you can go to http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ to search for manual pages (user guides) for any package.

Archisman Panigrahi
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