library details
Sometime you feel like (or may not) checking details of certain library on you machine. Suppose that the relevant library may be X related library.
Let us check and search for library name at first. And apt-cache command is your friend.
$ apt-cache search libx11
libx11-6 - X11 client-side library
libx11-6-dbg - X11 client-side library (debug package)
Ok, lib11-6 is what we are looking for. Let us check its content.
$ apt-cache show libx11-6
Package: libx11-6
Priority: standard
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 1489
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: libx11
Version: 2:1.5.0-1ubuntu1.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libxcb1 (>= 1.2), libx11-data
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Filename: pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-6_1.5.0-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Size: 776896
MD5sum: 3fea2137a989c9cf840c7e0db9b91606
SHA1: 5fcc7ab89b79687fb338e169622a2c57912bcb60
SHA256: 170ce1631c61458216078415ad9d660df98e193c18c4774d45432cb366e64c75
Description-en: X11 client-side library
This package provides a client interface to the X Window System, otherwise
known as 'Xlib'. It provides a complete API for the basic functions of the
window system.
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More information about X.Org can be found at:
<URL:http://www.X.org>
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This module can be found at
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libX11
Multi-Arch: same
Description-md5: d75c895abf6eca234f7480813aaa95ec
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: standard, kubuntu-active, kubuntu-active, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master
You can download source as described.
$ $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libX11