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Managing software with APT

Managing software with APT - Linux Tutorial

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Managing software with APT

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- [Tutor] On an Ubuntu system, we'll use the APT or APT package manager in order to find, install and manage software. APT is a set of tools that allows us to interact with package files and it can search for and download package files from repositories, libraries of packages available online or locally through which software is distributed. To find software with APT, we can use apt list and then the name of a package we want. Or use apt search, along with a term to search for within the descriptions of all the packages in the enabled repositories. But first, it's a good practice to always make sure that we have the most recent list of software available in the repositories that we're searching within. When we search for a package or ask for information about it, we search a local index which has been downloaded to our system. To get a recent copy of the index of packages from each repository we have available, we'll write…

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