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PACKAGING FORMATS

ver many years, different packaging formats have been developed for Linux distributions, and two formats lead the field. Debian-based operating systems (Debian, packaging system (for example, sudo apt install barrier). Operating systems from the Red Hat family (Cent OS, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as well as Suse-based distributions will use the RPM packaging format and will use the or software to install package (for example, sudo dnf install barrier).

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