Contains proprietary and legally restricted software

Contains experimental software for testing

Contains community-maintained open-source software

sudo apt install

apt upgrade

sudo apt update

dpkg -l

A package that cannot be installed on Linux

A package that installs a user account

A package that is automatically removed after installation

A library or package required by another package to function

A software development tool

A command-line package manager

A GUI package manager for installing and managing software

A text editor for package files

apt-get search "package-name"

apt search "package-name"

apt find "package-name"

dpkg -l "package-name"

Extracts the contents of the archive

Lists the contents of the archive

Deletes the archive

Compresses the archive

apt build "package_dir"

apt-get build "package_dir"

rpm -deb "package_dir"

dpkg-deb --build "package_dir"

sudo rpm -i "package-name".deb

sudo dpkg -i "package-name".deb

dpkg-deb --build "package-name".deb

sudo apt-get install "package-name"

Compresses the archive further

Verifies the archive for errors

Extracts files from the archive

Displays verbose output, showing each file added to the archive

A package system for Red Hat-based distributions

A secure repository for proprietary software

A standard repository for installing software on Ubuntu

A way for developers to distribute their packages on Debian-based systems