When we install a package in Ubuntu using apt-get install, where can we find the .deb files ?
I installed Python using this method but I did not find its .deb file in /var/cache/apt/archive/.
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By default, apt stores the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you can't find them here, you or someone else or something else(a software like Ubuntu tweak) may have run a clean-up command like sudo apt-get clean to clear up the .deb files. However, you can manually search all .deb files in your system by doing the following(may require superuser privileges):
sudo updatedb
This will update locate's database to search for newly created/removed files, this may take a while depending upon the difference in time when the last time updatedb was run(it is usually run as a cron job daily) and then
locate *.deb
which will search your / folder recursively for all files ending with .deb.
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