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Steps performed on a Debian bookworm node

sudo apt install python3-venv

mkdir ~/py-apt && cd $_

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

# update pip and wheel
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel

# https://salsa.debian.org/python-debian-team/python-debian
python3 -m pip install --upgrade python-debian

# create the read_package.py script

python3 read_package.py
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read_package.py
import apt
from debian import deb822
from os.path import expanduser
for pkg in deb822.Packages.iter_paragraphs(open(expanduser('~/Downloads/Packages'))):
if 'amd64' == pkg['Architecture']:
print(pkg['Package'], pkg['Filename'], pkg['version'])
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