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Apt-get

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Definition:

apt-get: A command used to install .deb software packages on Debian-based Linux distributions. It's used not only by one of the oldest distributions, Debian, but also by one of the most popular, Ubuntu. Apt-get is perhaps the second most popular form of package for Linux distributions.

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