All About Linux: A Concise Apt-Get/Dpkg Primer for New Debian Users

“Debian is one of the earliest Linux distribution around. It
caught the public’s fancy because of the ease of installing and
uninstalling applications on it. When many other linux
distributions were bogged down in dependency hell, Debian users
were shielded from these problems owing to Debian’s superior
package handling capablities using apt-get.

“All Linux distributions which claim their roots in the Debian
distribution use this versatile package manager. For the
uninitiated, Debian uses the deb package format for bundling
together files belonging to an application. You can look at it as
something like a setup installer (Eg: Installshield) in windows
counterpart…”

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