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Package Management for Debian and Ubuntu

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  • dpkg: low-level (without deps manageent)
  • apt-get (and apt-*): low-level (with deps management)
  • apt: user friendly
  • aptitude: even more user friendly
  • ~~wajig~~: use apt or aptitude instead

Overall, apt and aptitude are …

Package Management in Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

There are many different ways to install packages in Linux.

  1. Build from source.

  2. Pre-built binaries.

  3. Use distribution specific tools. For example,

    Notice that Atomic Linux distributions …