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  2. Synaptic (software) - Wikipedia

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    Synaptic is a GTK-based graphical user interface designed for the APT package manager used by the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives. [2] Synaptic is usually used on systems based on deb packages but can also be used on systems based on RPM packages. It can be used to install, remove and upgrade software packages and to add repositories.

  3. Snap (software) - Wikipedia

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    Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.

  4. List of software package management systems - Wikipedia

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    Used to shop for, download, install, update, uninstall and back up video games. Works on Windows NT, OS X and Linux; Uplay: A cross-platform video game distribution, licensing and social gameplay platform, developed and maintained by Ubisoft. Used to shop for, download, install and update video games.

  5. Linux Mint - Wikipedia

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    Linux Mint began in 2006 with a beta release, 1.0, code-named 'Ada', [13] based on Kubuntu and using its KDE interface. Linux Mint 2.0 'Barbara' was the first version to use Ubuntu as its codebase and its GNOME interface. It had few users until the release of Linux Mint 3.0, 'Cassandra'.

  6. APT (software) - Wikipedia

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    For example, when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the Packages.gz files, so that information about new and updated packages is available. upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed ...

  7. Package manager - Wikipedia

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    A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner. [1] A package manager deals with packages, distributions of software and data in archive files.

  8. dpkg - Wikipedia

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    dpkg is used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages. dpkg (Debian Package) itself is a low-level tool. APT (Advanced Package Tool), a higher-level tool, is more commonly used than dpkg as it can fetch packages from remote locations and deal with complex package relations, such as dependency resolution.

  9. Comparison of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    3 years 2023-03-19 100% Free: GNU FSDG [7] Ubuntu LTS desktop None Active TurnKey GNU/Linux: Alon Swartz, Liraz Siri TurnKey GNU/Linux Team 2008 18.0 [97] Debian packages as per Debian; TurnKey packages for life of current major version (plus backports per request) 2023-09-14 Debian Social Contract and DFSG: Debian