Installing Packages
Your Linux distribution may come with everything you need. Or it might be missing a few parts. To help keep things manageable, Linux breaks up all the utilities and programs into different software packages. For example, if you’re not doing any work with publishing, you won’t need TeX or Ghostscript. If you’re not programming in C or C++, you won’t need GCC. If you’re not on a desktop machine, you probably don’t need a window manager like Gnome or KDE.
All of these packages of software can be installed, removed, updated, and listed using a package manager. Every major Linux distribution uses a different package manager. In fact, you could almost say the package manager is what distinguishes one distribution from another, ...
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