Inspecting deb packages.

What is a debian package? Where we would find a deb package ? And why we would wand to inspect it? We can use the dpkg-deb utility to inspect a deb package.

using dpkg-deb

If we want to build ourselves a deb package or to troubleshoot a deb package we can use a lower level sysadm utility like dpkg-deb

$ dpkg -S dpkg-deb dpkg: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb