How to get details of a package in Ubuntu?

Question

I am looking for similar command in Ubuntu which can give complete details about packages like "rpm -qi package name". I need to check installation date, release date, architecture etc.

Above command give output in blow format:

rpm -qi tracker-miner-firefox-0.12.5-3.4.1.i586

Name : tracker-miner-firefox

Version : 0.12.5

Release : 3.4.1

Architecture: i586

Install Date: Fri 17 Oct 2014 20:50:18 IST

Group : System/GUI/GNOME

Size : 20570

License : GPLv2+

Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sun 30 Oct 2011 12:45:33 IST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284

Source RPM : tracker-extras-0.12.5-3.4.1.src.rpm

Build Date : Sun 30 Oct 2011 12:44:50 IST

Build Host : build08

Relocations : (not relocatable)

Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org

Vendor : openSUSE

URL : http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/

Summary : Tracker miner to index Firefox bookmarks

Description : Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer. This package contains a Firefox extension that will index Firefox bookmarks.

Distribution: openSUSE 12.1

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Simple answer

apt-cache show <package>

or

dpkg-deb --info <deb_file>