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Overview of Package Management
- Command-Line
- Console Package Managers
- GUI Package Managers
- Command-Line
- Console Package Managers
- Yast (for openSuse)
- GUI Package Managers
Debian package management
The Binary (or executable) packages contain configuration files, man/info pages, copyright information, other documentation, and the executable.
These packages end with a file extension ".deb" and are installable with a command-line tool called "dpkg".
The package system relies on dependencies, so a desired package may need other packages before installation can continue.
Debian packages contain control files, containing the following: Package Name, Priority, Section, Installation Size, Maintainer, Architecture, Version, Dependencies, and Description.
The process life cycle for debian packages can be viewed here.
Redhat Package Management
RPM is another package management that is popular with linux distributions. The binary package contains configuration files, documentation, executables, and other informative pieces.
The file extension ends with "rpm" and are installable with a command-line tool called "rpm."