The apt command is an advanced command-line tool, which offers new software package installation, existing software package upgradation, updating of the package list index, and even upgrading the whole Ubuntu or Linux Mint system. To know more about installed packages, read our article that shows how to list all files installed from a. deb package use the -r option or if you want to remove all its files including configuration files, you can purge it using the -purge option as shown. If you get any dependency errors while installing or after installing and launching a program, you can use the following apt command to resolve and install dependencies using the -f flag, which tells the program to fix broken dependencies. deb package, use the dpkg command with the -i flag along with the package name as shown. but unlike other Linux package management systems, it cannot automatically download and install packages with their dependencies. It is used to install, build, remove, and manage.

deb Package Using dpkg Commandĭpkg is a package manager for Debian and its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint. However, Ubuntu and Linux Mint have their own Graphical Software Center for easy software installation, but we will be looking forward to installing deb packages through the terminal way. The very basic problem they face is installing local software on the system. This is useful to those new users who have migrated from Windows to Ubuntu or Linux Mint. DEB) in Debian and its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint using three different command line tools and they are dpkg, apt, and gdebi. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install local software packages (.

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