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