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I know how to show the paths where I installed a package with dpkg:

$ dpkg -L gnome

How can I do that with aptitude?

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Why do you want to use aptitude when it's perfectly possible with dpkg? I din't even know it was possible. Thanks for that. – RobinJ Feb 24 '12 at 17:42
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@RobinJ dpkg -S (what package does a file or directory belong to?) and apt-file (like dpkg -S and dpkg -L, but also for packages that are not installed) are other useful commands – Lekensteyn Feb 24 '12 at 18:51

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dpkg is a lower-level tool that needs to know where files are extracted and such, but aptitude and apt handle packages as a whole (using package names) and therefore don't provide a method for showing filenames.

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