Beyond Synaptic - using apt for better package management
I’m a Debian user and—like many—I use apt and its associated tools. If you haven’t yet discovered apt here’s a brief summary of some of it and some of its tools which can make your package management even more powerful.
One of the advantages of apt is the repository management. Like most packaging systems, apt uses its repositories to find and retrieve packages. The way in which repositories are organised aids greatly with dependencies—where one package depends upon another in order to work properly. Apt repositories also make recommendations and suggestions of other packages which might prove useful. These are not dependencies as the original package will run without them but sometimes what you might think of as a dependency will be a recommendation because there is a choice involved. Debian policy is not to dictate.
Because of the nature of these tools the user running them needs certain privileges. Usually this would be done with sudo or—if you are confident—as root.
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