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apt-get is a command from the APT suite of tools that is used to install, upgrade or remove software packages in …

The APT suite of tools includes a command called apt-cache whose purpose is to provide information about the Debian package database. …

Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) is a package manager originally designed for Debian as a front-end for the dpkg utility. It …

Debian packages are adopted by several Linux distributions, most notably Ubuntu, Knoppix and Linux Mint. Debian packages usually have the …

yum (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) is a command-line package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions such as CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. yum enables …

Some of the RPM-based distributions are Red Hat, Fedora, Fermi Linux, CentOS, SUSE Enterprise, openSUSE, and Mandriva. RPM is a …