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- [Instructor] While package managers that handle dependency resolution and repository searching are pretty convenient, we don't always have access to that software or to the internet when installing packages. And so it's important to know how to use the basic manual tools as well. The systems derived from Debian use dpkg to manage devices. Let's take a look at some of the commonly used features of this software. In order to install a package using dpkg, we need a package in the Debian package format, which are indicated by the extension .deb. Many sites offer .deb files for download, though not all software is available as a Debian package. Once you download a package file you can start using dpkg to work with it. We can view the metadata for our package with the --info option and see the high level view of what a package is about. This display show the software version number, what packages the package depends on, the maintainer, the description, and some other important…

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