How To List All Packages In A Repository On Ubuntu, Debian Or Linux Mint [APT]

This article explains how to list all the packages available in an Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian repository (installed and available for install), be it an official repository or a third-party source like a PPA, and so on.

Below you'll find 2 ways of listing packages from a repository: using a GUI or from the command line.

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List all packages in a Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint repository using a GUI

If you want to list all the packages in a repository on your desktop, you can use Synaptic Package Manager.

Synaptic is a graphical package management application for APT (APT being the main command line package manager for Debian and its derivatives).

If you don't have Synaptic installed, you can install it on Debian, Ubuntu, and any Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distribution, including elementary OS, Linux Mint and so on, by using this command:

sudo apt install synaptic

To list all the packages in a particular software repository using Synaptic, launch the application and click on Origin in the bottom left-hand side of its window. Next, select the repository for which you want to list all available packages (both installed and available for installation) from the list that's displayed in the left-hand side of Synaptic Package Manager.

For example, here's Synaptic showing all the packages available in the Google repository, listing Google Chrome stable, beta and unstable, as well as Google Earth Pro and EC: