July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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The Debian Package Manager | 595
Package
Management
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but you’ll probably want to change some sources or add additional ones at some
point. You might also want to change some of the options in the configuration
files apt.conf, apt_preferences, and dpkg.config if you aren’t satisfied with the
defaults. The control, conffiles, and the pre- and post- install and removal script
files are created by the package developers and used internally by the package-
management system.
Package Priorities
Every Debian package has a priority associated with it, indicating how important
the package is to the system. The priorities are:
required
The package is essential to the proper functioning of the system.
important
The package provides important functionality that enables the system to run
well.
standard
The package is included in a standard system installation.
optional
The package is one that you might want to install, but you can omit it if you
are short on disk space, for example.
extra
The package either conflicts with other packages that have a higher priority,
has specialized requirements, or is one that you would want to install only if
you need it.
The control file for dpkg, for example, shows that dpkg itself has a priority of
required; dpkg-dev (which provides tools for building Debian packages) has ...
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