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01-27-2009

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Different operating systems / derivatives have different software package management systems.
rpm is the Red Hat Package manager which is widely spread. It's also used additionally on other Linux'es, AIX, etc.
pkg is afaik the SUN software package management tool.
For debian there are different. alien for installing RPMs, dpkg is down below all of them and on top are some like apt, aptitude and synaptic for example.

So there is not usually the question "which is better", since 1st there is the question, which OS do I use and so which is package manager is available.

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apt

apt(8)							      System Manager's Manual							    apt(8)

NAME

       apt - Advanced Package Tool

SYNOPSIS

       apt

DESCRIPTION

       APT  is	a management system for software packages. For normal day to day package management there are several frontends available, such as
       aptitude(8) for the command line or synaptic(8) for the X Window System. Some options are only implemented in apt-get(8) though.

SEE ALSO

       apt-cache(8), apt-get(8), apt.conf(5), sources.list(5), apt_preferences(5), apt-secure(8)

DIAGNOSTICS

       apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.

BUGS

       This manpage isn't even started.

       See <http://bugs.debian.org/apt>.  If you wish to report a bug in apt, please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt  or  the  report-
       bug(1) command.

AUTHOR

       apt was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.

Debian								   16 June 1998 							    apt(8)