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Linux Essentials - Second Edition
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Package management is an area of Linux that varies a lot from one distribution to another. Nonetheless, certain principles are common across most Linux distributions, so we describe these principles, followed by some of the basics of the two major Linux package management systems. We then describe how to manage packages using both the RPM Package Manager (RPM, a recursive acronym) and Debian package systems.

If you’ve installed software in Windows, you’re likely familiar with the procedure of double-clicking an installer program, which places all the files associated with a program where they should go. A Windows software installer is similar to a Linux package file, but there are differences. Linux packages have the following characteristics:
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