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Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Debian Goodies

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“Debian Goodies (the debian-goodies package) is a set of
utilities that work with Debian packages and provide more
information than you can get out of the standard APT (Advanced
Package Tool) utilities. You can use Debian Goodies to find out
which packages have releases, critical bugs, which ones hog the
most disk space or use older versions of files that have been
upgraded.”

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