dpkg
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Key facts
- Software.title
- dpkg
- Software.author
- Ian Murdock
- Software.developer
- The Debian Project
- Software.programming language
- C, C++, Perl
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like
- Software.language count
- 42
- Software.genre
- Package manager
- Software.license
- GPLv2
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Development tools
- dselect
- install-info
- {{Anchor|wpkg}}wpkg
- See also
- References
- External links
dpkg is the software at the base of the package management system in the free operating system Debian and its many derivatives. dpkg is used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages.
dpkg (Debian Package) itself is a low-level tool. Advanced Package Tool (APT), 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. Frontends for APT, like aptitude (ncurses) and synaptic (GTK), are used for their friendlier interfaces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dpkg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.