August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 45m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins
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The Debian Package Manager
Debian GNU/Linux provides several package management tools, primarily
intended to facilitate the building, installation, and management
of binary packages. Debian package names generally end in
.deb. The Debian package management tools include:
- dpkg
Until recently, the most important of the Debian packaging tools and still the primary package management program. Used to install or uninstall packages or as a frontend to dpkg-deb.
- dpkg-deb
Lower-level packaging tool. Used to create and manage the Debian package archives. Accepts and executes commands from dpkg or can be called directly.
- dselect
An interactive frontend to dpkg.
- apt-get
The currently available piece of the Advanced Package Tool (APT), which is still being developed and is intended to be a modern, user-friendly package management tool. Can be run from the command line or selected as a method from dselect. One of the features of apt-get is that you can use it to get and install packages across the Internet by specifying an ftp:// or http:// URL. Another feature is that you can use it to upgrade all packages currently installed on your system in a single operation.
Files
Some important files used by the Debian package management tools are:
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control Comes with each package; documents dependencies; contains the name and version of the package, a description, maintainer, installed size, and so on.
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conffiles Comes with each package and contains a list of the configuration files associated with ...
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