dselect Documentation for Beginners - Chapter 4
Glossary

The following terms are useful to you in this document and in general, when talking about Debian.

Package

A file which contains everything needed to install, de-install and run a particular program. The program which handles packages is dpkg. dselect is a front end to dpkg. Experienced users often use dpkg to install or remove a package.

Package names

All package names have the form xxxxxxxxxxx.deb.

Sample package names are:

• efax_08a-1.deb

• lrzsz_0.12b-1.deb

• mgetty_0.99.2-6.deb

• minicom_1.75-1.deb

• term_2.3.5-5.deb

• uucp_1.06.1-2.deb

• uutraf_1.1-1.deb

• xringd_1.10-2.deb

• xtel_3.1-2.deb