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Components The Ubuntu software repository contains thousands of software packages organised into five 'components', on the basis of the level of support we can offer them, and whether or not they comply with our Free Software Philosophy. The components are called "main", "restricted", "universe", "multiverse" and commercial.

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Table of Contents What is a package manager? Software repositories Adding extra repositories Add/Remove Applications Advanced package management Synaptic Package Manager Command-line package management with APT Installing a single package file Install/uninstall .deb files Convert .rpm files to .deb files Install tarballs In this section you can learn how to use a package manager to add or remove applications in Ubuntu with a few clicks. You can also learn about more advanced techniques of managing applications and discover some optional applications to add to Ubuntu and try.