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Package: apt
Description: commandline package manager
This package provides commandline tools for searching and
managing as well as querying information about packages
as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
These include:
* apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
removal of packages together with their dependencies
* apt-cache for querying available information about installed
as well as installable packages
* apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
* apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
* apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys
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Package: dpkg
Description: Debian package management system
This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the
installation and removal of Debian software packages.
For Debian package development tools, install dpkg-dev.
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
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Description: Debian package development tools
This package provides the development tools (including dpkg-source)
required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.
Most Debian source packages will require additional tools to build;
for example, most packages need make and the C compiler gcc.
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
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Description: Debian package management front-end
dselect is a high-level interface for managing the installation and
removal of Debian software packages.
Many users find dselect intimidating and new users may prefer to use
apt-based user interfaces.
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
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Description: system login tools
This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for
changing effective user or group IDs, including:
* login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
* nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
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Description: tools for reading manual pages
This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the
system help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the
whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the
manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the
maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. man-db uses the groff
suite of programs to format and display the manual pages.
Homepage: https://man-db.gitlab.io/man-db/
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