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The dpkg and APT package managers

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The dpkg and APT package managers

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- [Instructor] The packages manager for Debian and distros derived from Debian, like Ubuntu, is called dpkg or Debian package. As a user, we can interact with it directly, or we can use another higher level program that gives us a few more features. Dpkg by itself manages packages and can install from downloaded package files. Other tools like the apt suite of tools and aptitude can search online repositories for packages and download package files and then hand them off to dpkg to install or manage. The apt software acts as a front end to the apt-get and apt-cache tools, which can search, download, and modify the list of packages installed on the system and can search predefined or user defined repositories to find additional software. And there's aptitude, which offers a text mode interface. Using apt-get directly is very common and it's how I tend to work with packages on Ubuntu. But I encourage you to check out aptitude as well to see how you like it. Be sure to explore the man…

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