Repository

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Software repositories, also known as repos, have evolved to become the dominant means of software distribution in most distributions of Linux. This is because using repositories makes installation and maintaining software extremely easy.

Repositories are used by package managers to automatically install programs.

Package Managers:

Synaptic Package Manager

Advanced Packaging Tool

YUM

Pacman

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