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Five of the top 10 most downloaded distributions on Distrowatch use the Debian package system. It has developed a rich infrastructure of utilities -- not just the core commands apt-get and dpkg, but also such less well-known commands as apt-cache, apt-spy, and apt-listbugs.

Linux.com: "Five of the top 10 most downloaded distributions on Distrowatch use the Debian package system. It has developed a rich infrastructure of utilities -- not just the core commands apt-get and dpkg, but also such less well-known commands as apt-cache, apt-spy, and apt-listbugs.

In addition, an array of other scripts, some mashups of existing utilities, and some original, are regularly available on sites like openDesktop.org."

Five of the top 10 most downloaded distributions on Distrowatch use the Debian package system. It has developed a rich infrastructure of utilities -- not just the core commands apt-get and dpkg, but also such less well-known commands as apt-cache, apt-spy, and apt-listbugs.

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Linux package management cheatsheet, part 4 News: Upgrading Mandriva with mdkonline, Blu-ray sets for Debian "Lenny", Linux Mint 5 for 64-bit systems, interview with KPackageKit developers, K12Linux update Released last week: NetBSD 4.0.1, Parted Magic 3.1 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3,....

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A few days ago we featured an interview with one of Fink 's project leaders regarding their package management solution which breeds more Unix software to MacOSX.

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A really good overview on how to do common package management tasks on all major distros.

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