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dpkg (8) - a medium-level ["package"] manager for ["Debian"]
With dpkg --set-selections, you can set which packages are to be installed/removed etc, which gets done the next time you run ["apt-get"] dist-upgrade.
Why "medium-level"?
Below it, there's ["dpkg-deb"], which performs lower-level actions on [".deb"] (binary) packages, such as reading the control information and directly extracting the contained files.
dpkg checks dependencies and will refuse to install a package whose dependencies aren't met, but it won't help you find and install those dependencies. You need a higher-level tool (eg ["dselect"] or ["apt-get"]) for that.
See also:
- ["APT"]
?AptGet
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