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The Advanced Packaging Tool and its various frontends form the package management core of Debian and Debian-derived distributions such as SprezzOS.

deb(5) -- The deb binary package format, since Debian 0.93. Older versions are documented in deb-old(5).
deb-version(5) -- Version number semantics.

apt-get(8) -- command line interactive package tool
dpkg(1) -- command line local package database management
aptitude(8) -- modern ncurses interactive package tool.
dselect(1) -- horrible old ncurses interactive package tool. Avoid at all costs.
apt-cache(8), dpkg-query(1) -- query the database

deb-control(5) -- The control files required to generate binary packages from source.
- A given source package maps to a single control file, in which it is described.
- A given source package can yield one or more binary packages. Each will have an entry in the control file.
dch(1), debchange(1) -- Tools for managing changelog files.

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+The Advanced Packaging Tool and its various frontends form the package management core of Debian and Debian-derived distributions such as SprezzOS.
+==Relevant man pages==
+* <tt>deb(5)</tt> -- The deb binary package format, since Debian 0.93. Older versions are documented in <tt>deb-old(5)</tt>.
+* <tt>deb-version(5)</tt> -- Version number semantics.
+===Working with the database===
+* <tt>apt-get(8)</tt> -- command line interactive package tool
+* <tt>dpkg(1)</tt> -- command line local package database management
+* <tt>aptitude(8)</tt> -- modern ncurses interactive package tool.
+* <tt>dselect(1)</tt> -- horrible old ncurses interactive package tool. Avoid at all costs.
+* <tt>apt-cache(8)</tt>, <tt>dpkg-query(1)</tt> -- query the database
+===Creating packages===
+* <tt>deb-control(5)</tt> -- The <tt>control</tt> files required to generate binary packages from source.
+** A given source package maps to a single control file, in which it is described.
+** A given source package can yield one or more binary packages. Each will have an entry in the control file.
+* <tt>dch(1)</tt>, <tt>debchange(1)</tt> -- Tools for managing <tt>changelog</tt> files.
+===Working with debs===
+* <tt>dpkg-deb(1)</tt> -- Unpacks, packs, dumps information about local .deb files.
 [[CATEGORY: SprezzOS Manual]]
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