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Many tools available on a Debian system can be used for PackageManagement. Commonly used ones include:

command-line:

apt - The main command-line package management tool
aptitude - command-line and text-based interface (ncurses) for Apt

graphical:

Synaptic - Graphical package manager
gdebi - Graphical installer for standalone DebianPackages
gnome-software - Software Center for GNOME

This page tries to list all software related to Debian package management.

Contents

Full list of package management tools
1. apt
2. dpkg
3. apt-utils
4. devscripts
5. dpkg-dev
6. TODO unsorted
Tools for managing a package repository
Other
1. See also

apt

The apt package provides commandline tools for searching, managing, and querying information about packages, and access all features of the libapt-pkg library:

apt - high-level commandline interface for the package management system.
apt-cache - performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache.
apt-cdrom - used to add a new CD-ROM to APT's list of available sources.
apt-config - This program is used by the other apt utilities to provide a standard interface to the apt configuration settings.
apt-get - command-line tool for handling packages
apt-key - manage the list of keys used by apt to authenticate packages. $/!\$ This command is deprecated!

dpkg

The dpkg package provides low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages:

dpkg - a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages.
dpkg-deb - Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool
dpkg-divert - override a package's version of a file
dpkg-maintscript-helper - works around known dpkg limitations in maintainer scripts
dpkg-query - show information about packages listed in the dpkg database.
dpkg-split - splits binary packages into smaller files and reassembles them(storage of large package files on small media)
dpkg-statoverride - override ownership and mode of files
dpkg-trigger - a tool to explicitly activate dpkg triggers
update-alternatives - maintain symbolic links determining default commands

apt-utils

apt-utils contains some less used commandline utilities related to package management with APT.

devscripts

devscripts provides several scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier

debuild - This tool is used for rebuilding packages

dpkg-dev

dpkg-dev provides the development tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.

dpkg-scanpackages - create Debian Packages index files from binary packages (.deb and variants)
dpkg-scansources - create Debian Sources index files from source packages (.dsc)

TODO unsorted

apt-file - This tool searches for a filename installed by any package in the contents of sources.list.
apt-listchanges - This tool displays the relevant changelog entries whenever a package is upgraded.
apt-build - Used to build packages from the source files
apt-cdrom-setup - This tool allows cdrom based sources to be included in the package sources list.
apt-rdepends - This tool generates recursive dependency trees for a package.
apt-show-versions - shows all available versions of a package (allows wildcards), or all packages, and displays upgrade information where applicable.
dpkg-reconfigure - Allows a package to be reconfigured based on preferences (the same questions that are asked when the package is first installed).
apt-show-source - This is a variant of "apt-cache show" that shows information against the named source package, rather than the binary package.
apt-listbugs - This tool shows known critical bugs in named packages.
apt-sortpkgs - Sorts records and fields within the sources and packages files.
apt-extracttemplates - Extracts templates and install scripts from packages.
apt-setup - This tool configures the sources.list file.
apt-offline - Offline Package Management
deborphan - This tool scans the package database for unused or redundant packages
dpkg-www - Debian package management web interface - browse Debian packages on a local or remote host using a normal web browser.
apt-xapian-index - a tool to maintain a Xapian index of Debian package information and a command line search tool that uses the index.
Wajig - wrapper tool for apt-get, dpkg, apt-cache, wget, and others

apt-cacher - This is an alternative tool to apt-proxy.
apt-ftparchive - generates, from a directory of packages, the Packages and Sources control files used for an apt repository.
apt-move - Moves a collection of Debian packages into a proper pool directory hierarchy as used by a package repository.
apt-transport-https - Allows apt to be configured to use https

Other

dselect - Deprecated: superseded by aptitude
tasksel – Tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems
PackageKit - Distro-agnostic frontend under developement