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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Linux has numerous package managers.
- There are command-line and GUI tools for the task.
- Not all package managers are created equal.
When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called “source code,” as in you had to install everything from source. Eventually, package managers started showing up to make things exponentially easier.
The first package manager I ever used was RPM on Red…

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