Traditionally, Ubuntu has used the Deb package format. The Deb package format comes from Debian, which Ubuntu is based on. This is similar to other Linux package formats, like the RPM packages that ...

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I came back from winter break to school and did 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade' worked until it got to gftp. Once there it has problems.<BR><BR>I get <BR>Sorry ...

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Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...