package tool, or APT, is a free-software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian and...

front end to APT, the Debian package manager. It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove...

dpkg is the software at the base of the package management system in the free operating system Debian and its numerous derivatives. dpkg is used to install...

version of Debian is Debian version 12, codename "Bookworm". The next up and coming release of Debian is Debian 13, codename "Trixie". Debian always has...

Some package managers, such as Debian's dpkg, allow configuration during installation. In other situations, it is desirable to install packages with the...

and 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...

also a popular package manager for Debian-based systems; Entropy: Used by and created for Sabayon Linux. It works with binary packages that are bzip2-compressed...

For example, many Linux distributions use Advanced Packaging Tool (APT), commonly found in Debian based distributions, or Yellowdog Updater, Modified...

is stored. The name Aptoide is formed from the words "APT" (the Debian package manager) and "oide" (the last syllable of "Android"). Aptoide started as...

RPM Package Manager (RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager, now a recursive acronym) is a free and open-source package management system. The name...

cross-platform package manager for Unix-like systems, invented in 2003 by Eelco Dolstra. The Nix package manager employs a model in which software packages are each...

the APT package manager used by the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives. Synaptic is usually used on systems based on deb packages but can also...

distribution from the packages of other Linux distributions. Woof includes some binaries and software derived from Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, T2 SDE, or...

supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt...

about the DFSG happen on the debian-legal mailing list. When a Debian Developer first uploads a package for inclusion in Debian, the ftpmaster team checks...

Linux-libre also became an official GNU package. Debian GNU/Hurd was discussed for a release as technology preview with Debian 7.0 Wheezy, however these plans...

running software and protect against tampering. Package formats that support code signing include .deb (Debian), .msi (Microsoft Windows), .apk (Android) and...

Swing by using underlying OS native windowing abilities Fink – Debian package manager for ported Unix software Free Pascal – Object Pascal compiler, XCode...

been incorporated into dpkg, Debian's package manager, and is one of the standard source formats supported from the Debian "squeeze" release onwards. This...

distribution installers (for example, Debian-Installer and Anaconda) and the package management systems, very few packages are actually written by a distribution's...

analogous to other software packages such as APPX in Microsoft Windows, APP for HarmonyOS or a Debian package in Debian-based operating systems. To make...

minimal base system automatically; additional packages are available using its package manager, based on Debian's. Most commands available in Linux are accessible...

interface and per VNIC basis. Distributions, at illumos.org DilOS, with Debian package manager (dpkg + apt) and virtualization support, available for x86-64 and...

Ubuntu packages are based on Debian's unstable branch, which are synchronized every six months. Both distributions use Debian's deb package format and...

appropriate package, for example the redhat-lsb package in Red-Hat-flavored distributions such as Fedora, or the lsb-release package in Debian-based distributions...

This is a chronological list of Debian project leaders. Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open-source...

the packages they require. pacman, a package manager written specifically for Arch Linux, is used to install, remove and update software packages. Arch...

(Not-ion) fork is actively maintained with packages available for the Linux distributions gentoo, Debian, Arch, SUSE and Fedora as well as NetBSD and...

Linux and Debian package management. Debian is less user-friendly and desktop-ready than Ubuntu, with some rough edges. The Driver Manager application...

non-free sections of Debian Jessie. On the 2015-11-21, Debian Sid, the development release, have 24757 source packages. Based on Debian From the Sources.gz...