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Get package information with dpkg and APT

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Get package information with dpkg and APT

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- Debian-based distributions have their own package file format and package management system. These commands can be used on any Debian-based systems, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. In this video, we will talk about how to get information about which packages are available to install, as well as information about the packages themselves. The low-level command for managing packages is dpkg, or Debian package. This is the equivalent to the rpm command on Red Hat-based systems. The repository-based package management system is APT, or Advanced Packaging Tool, and would be equivalent to yum or dnf on Red Hat. You will see references to apt-get and apt-cache tools on the Internet. These tools are very powerful and still work to query as well as install packages. However, there is a new tool, simply called apt, that provides a more user-friendly experience, so we'll focus on it in this course, and only reference the…

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