Chapter 12
Removing and Installing Software

This chapter describes ways of installing and removing software packages. There are several ways of doing both. Here we discuss installation and removal of pre-built software, such as Debian packages, and installation of source that must be built by you.


 12.1 What a Package Maintenance Utility Does
 12.2 dpkg
 12.3 dselect
 12.4 Compiling Software