• the packaging system, including dpkg-deb, dpkg-split, dpkg-query, dpkg-statoverride, dpkg-divert and dpkg-trigger. It also includes the programs such...
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  • Deb (file format) (category Dpkg)
    dpkg provides the basic functionality for installing and manipulating Debian packages. Generally end users don't manage packages directly with dpkg but...
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    APT (software) (category Dpkg)
    installation. APT can be considered a front end to dpkg, friendlier than the older dselect front end. While dpkg performs actions on individual packages, APT...
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    options that should be disabled. Some package managers, such as Debian's dpkg, allow configuration during installation. In other situations, it is desirable...
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  • package form; i.e., all apps are compiled and ready to be installed and use. dpkg: Originally used by Debian and now by Ubuntu. Uses the .deb format and was...
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  • Wajig (category Dpkg)
    wrapper to Debian's package management system dpkg/APT. Wajig provides the functionality of apt-get, dpkg, dpkg-deb, apt-cache and other tools. These tools...
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    Debian 1.1 was released in 1996. By that time and thanks to Ian Jackson, the dpkg package manager was already an essential part of Debian. In 1996, Bruce Perens...
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  • Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic). Ubuntu (named...
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  • from installing a package directly via a package installer (e.g. RPM or dpkg). Diamond dependency When a library A depends on libraries B and C, both...
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    system Delta ISO — an ISO image which contains RPM Package Manager files dpkg — package management system used by Debian and its derivatives List of RPM-based...
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    Fink (software) (category Dpkg)
    effort to port and package open-source Unix programs to macOS. Fink uses dpkg and APT (Debian's package management system), as well as its own frontend...
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  • environment-modules Once installed the package information can be viewed with: dpkg -L environment-modules Although installing from a Linux distributions repository...
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    developer and community coordinator (2004–2005) Ian Jackson, developer of dpkg and former Debian Project Leader (2005–2007) Lars Wirzenius, first contributor...
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  • Package Manager Synaptic (software) FreeBSD Ports Definitive media library dpkg Simtel APTonCD itmWEB: Coping with Computer Viruses Archived October 14,...
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  • name originated from patchwork quilts. Quilt has been incorporated into dpkg, Debian's package manager, and is one of the standard source formats supported...
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    on an x86-64 Linux system that uses glibc and GCC and is being built via dpkg or rpm. The US federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has...
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    synchronizer, which uses zlib to implement optional protocol compression. The dpkg and RPM package managers, which use zlib to unpack files from compressed...
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    Ubuntu Software Center (category Dpkg)
    Software Center, is a discontinued high-level graphical front end for the APT/dpkg package management system. It is free software written in Python, PyGTK/PyGObject...
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    method Software Updater, Ubuntu Software, apt Package manager GNOME Software, dpkg (APT), Snap – graphical front-end: Snap Store Platforms x86-64 ARM64 RISC-V...
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  • Jackson is a longtime free software author and Debian developer. Jackson wrote dpkg (replacing a more primitive Perl tool with the same name), SAUCE (Software...
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  • basis. Distributions, at illumos.org DilOS, with Debian package manager (dpkg + apt) and virtualization support, available for x86-64 and SPARC. NexentaStor...
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    primarily by the Enlightenment team. A package management system, such as dpkg and RPM. Alternatively packages can be compiled from binary or source tarballs...
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  • (compared to bzip2) and small size (compared to gzip). The Linux kernel, dpkg and RPM systems contains xz code, and many software distributors like kernel...
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    August 2013; 11 years ago (10 August 2013) Update method APT Package manager dpkg Platforms IA-32, x86-64 Kernel type Monolithic Default user interface KDE...
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  • considering a feature freeze exception to get this newly-developed Zstd Apt/Dpkg support in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In doing so, they mention they would be looking...
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  • SUSE patchrpm, worked by replacing changed files. A similar system for the dpkg-APT package manager system of Debian is debdelta (2006); despite an apparent...
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    months ago (15 August 2023) Repository git.devuan.org Package manager APT (dpkg) Platforms i386, amd64, ARM, ppc64el Kernel type Monolithic (Linux kernel)...
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    6 May 2013; 11 years ago (6 May 2013) Update method APT Package manager dpkg, with several front-ends Kernel type Linux Default user interface Openbox...
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  • ago (2021) General availability 15 August 2023 Marketing target Government systems Package manager dpkg (APT) Kernel type Monolithic (Linux) Userland GNU...
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    (more than 30) Update method Deepin Software Center Package manager APT, dpkg Platforms x86-64, RISCV64, ARM64, LoongArch64 Kernel type Monolithic (Linux...
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