Software management in Ubuntu 13.10

Ubuntu includes the convenient Software Center, which provides centralized software management and lets you search for new software and install it with a mouse click. With an Ubuntu One account, you can purchase software simply with a credit card.

The Debian packages (ending in .deb) that Software Center offers are actually archive files containing libraries, configuration files, and executable programs. If you install the Firefox package, for example, the package manager distributes the necessary files to the correct places in the filesystem.

Often dependencies exist, which means that installing program A requires that you have program B installed also. The package manager identifies the dependent packages automatically during installation and loads them onto the computer. Usually, you will notice the dependencies when you try to install a single Debian package over the Internet.

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