Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a
few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just
system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated…

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Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a
few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just
system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated…

read more from this topic.....

Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a
few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just
system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated…

read more from this topic.....

Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a
few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just
system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated…

read more from this topic.....

Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a
few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just
system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated…

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Those of you who regularly install Debian may have noticed a prompt that asks you if you would like to install Popcon, the Debian Popularity Contest. Popcon gathers statistics about package usag…

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APTonCD is a GUI tool that can extract the .deb packages that you have manually installed on your machine and selectively copy them to an ISO image that can be burned to a CD or DVD. The tool ca…

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CDE (not to be mistaken for the Common Desktop Environment in UNIX) is a packaging tool which allows you to identically replicate the execution of a program running on one Linux machine, on to another.

It does this by packaging up the Code, Data, and…

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Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It ca…

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Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer. more>>

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