How to know where the package been installed in Ubuntu

If you want to customize installed packages in ubuntu,and forget where you have the packages installed.You can use dpkg command to find out where the packages installed.

dpkg -L package-name

This will list files installed to your system from package-name.
Search for a filename from installed packages,use:

dpkg -S filename

More about dpkg command,type:

man dpkg

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