Here i’m going to install Atom through b file. deb packge on Debian based systems such as Debian, Mint, Ubuntu & elementryOS, etc. Use the below command to install/upgrade. See below for common syntax/ file location of dpkg which will help you if you want to check more about it. Now, i’m going to play on our Ubuntu 15.10 box to explain and cover mostly used dpkg commands with examples.

Some other package manger utilities which are being used widely in Linux are yum, dnf, apt-get, dpkg, rpm, Zypper, pacman, urpmi, etc., Now a days most of the administrator using Apt, Apt-Get & Aptitude to manage packages easily without headache and its robust management too.Įven though still we need to use dpkg to perform some software installation where it’s necessary. Other utility such as dpkg-deb and dpkg-query uses dpkg as a front-end to perform some action. dpkg uses Aptitude (primary and more user-friendly) as a front-end to perform all the actions. dpkg is a command-line tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. Dpkg stands for Debian package manager (dpkg).

Ubuntu dpkg