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  2. dpkg - Wikipedia

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    dpkg-shlibdeps calculates the dependencies of runs with respect to libraries. dpkg-genchanges reads the information from an unpacked Debian tree source that once constructed creates a control file (.changes). dpkg-buildpackage is a control script that can be used to construct the package automatically. dpkg-distaddfile adds a file input to ...

  3. List of software package management systems - Wikipedia

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    dpkg: Originally used by Debian and now by Ubuntu. Uses the .deb format and was the first to have a widely known dependency resolution tool, APT. The ncurses-based front-end for APT, aptitude, is also a popular package manager for Debian-based systems; Entropy: Used by and created for Sabayon Linux.

  4. Debian build toolchain - Wikipedia

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    A source package is created using the dpkg-buildpackage tool or its wrapper debuild. When invoked to create a source package, dpkg-buildpackage calls the maintainer's rules to clean the source tree of any intermediate files, does various sanity checks, and finally, signs the dsc file with the packager's key using the debsign utility.

  5. APT (software) - Wikipedia

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    A major feature of APT is the way it calls dpkg — it does topological sorting of the list of packages to be installed or removed and calls dpkg in the best possible sequence. In some cases, it utilizes the --force options of dpkg. However, it only does this when it is unable to calculate how to avoid the reason dpkg requires the action to be ...

  6. Portage (software) - Wikipedia

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    The ebuild system takes care of the actual work of building and installing packages, while emerge provides an interface to ebuild: managing an ebuild repository, resolving dependencies and similar issues. (These two therefore have roughly the same relation as rpm has with yum, or dpkg has with APT.)

  7. List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 December 2024. List of software distributions using the Linux kernel This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this ...

  8. Environment Modules (software) - Wikipedia

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    The typical configure, make, install cycle can become painfully slow as each configure improvement reveals another dependency not available in your default environment. This section includes the steps to install the Environment Modules package on source including compiling the Tcl (Tool Command Language) from source as a dependency.

  9. Package manager - Wikipedia

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    Synaptic, an example of a package manager. 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.