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Dpkg

dpkg is a packaging tool created by the Debian project; it is similar to RPM. It can install, remove, and and list information about packages, but can not resolve conflicts in the package dependencies. Debian provides apt, a front end to dpkg, for this purpose.

See also

Package management system
List of popular Unix programs

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