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Further Reading

Spend some time getting to know the package management system for your distribution. Each distribution provides documentation for its package management tools. In addition, here are some more generic sources:

● The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ chapter on package management provides an over- view of package management on Debian systems : http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

● The home page for the RPM project: http://www.rpm.org

● The home page for the YUM project at Duke University: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

● For a little background, the Wikipedia has an article on metadata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata

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