Helpful utility to fetch package version data for specified packages in the Ubuntu archive.
Similar to [rmadison](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/rmadison.1.html) utility or the [rmadison webpage](https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi) but allows for querying multiple packages at the same time and also support TXT, JSON and CSV output formats.
This makes it easy to use with other tools - like a monitoring tool which is my use case.
# Usage:
ubuntu-package-status --help Shows all available options and their expected values
ubuntu-package-status --config-skeleton Shows the format of the expected yaml config
``` ubuntu-package-status --config="config.yaml" --logging-level=DEBUG --output-format=CSV > "package-stats.csv" ```
This will write the current state of your packages in the archive to a "package-stats.csv" fi
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
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To install ubuntu-package-status, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install ubuntu-package-status
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