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This section discusses how applications are installed, removed and kept up to date. Also covered are how packages are stored by Xubuntu and made available for download.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:17(para)
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<link linkend="gnome-app-install">Add/Remove Applications</link> - Quickly installs and removes popular programs, as well as providing ratings.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:33(para)
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<link linkend="synaptic">Synaptic</link> - Allows more advanced management, such as installing server applications and choosing different versions of the same package.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:40(para)
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<link linkend="apt">Apt</link> - Allows package management from the command line.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:47(para)
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You will require administrative access to install and remove software. This is because packages sometimes need to change important system files. See the <link linkend="administrative"><application>Administrative Tasks</application></link> section for more information on administrative access.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:62(para)
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Common package-management terms
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:69(title)
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If you are unfamiliar with Xubuntu's package management system, you may like to take a look at some of the following definitions.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:71(para)
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<emphasis role="strong">Packages</emphasis> are files which contain a program and all of the files required to run it on your computer. When you install a package, a file is downloaded from a repository and installed by a package manager.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:76(para)
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<emphasis role="strong">Dependencies</emphasis> are packages which must be installed before certain other packages can be installed. Dependency packages usually contain some files and programs needed by the other packages - for example, a word-processing package may depend on a printing package being installed in order to be able to print documents.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:83(para)
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When you install software on Xubuntu, the package manager automatically downloads the required software packages from a <emphasis>software repository</emphasis>, a location on the Internet which stores collections of packages ready to be downloaded.
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Located in
add-applications/C/add-applications.xml:96(para)
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