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APT - Advanced Package Tool

APT, or Advanced Package Tool, is the recommended method for managing software packages on Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions, consolidating apt-get and apt-cache into a single command. It operates with packages from repositories rather than .deb files directly, utilizing dpkg for installation after downloading. APT repositories, including PPAs hosted on platforms like Launchpad, contain collections of packages and their metadata for apt to read.

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APT - Advanced Package Tool

APT, or Advanced Package Tool, is the recommended method for managing software packages on Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions, consolidating apt-get and apt-cache into a single command. It operates with packages from repositories rather than .deb files directly, utilizing dpkg for installation after downloading. APT repositories, including PPAs hosted on platforms like Launchpad, contain collections of packages and their metadata for apt to read.

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APT - Advanced Package Tool

● The recommended way to manage software packages on Ubuntu and other Debian
based distributions is using apt.
● In the newest versions of Ubuntu the apt-get and apt-cache tools were merged into a
single command simply called apt.
● Unlike dpkg, apt does not understand .deb files. It works with packages that are
downloaded from repositories and calls dpkg directly after downloading the .deb
archives.
● An APT repository is a web server which contains a collection of packages with
metadata that is readable by the apt tool.
● A special kind of repository hosted on servers like Launchpad are PPAs.

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