| Couche | Programme | Fonction |
| supérieure | apt-get ou dselect | Gestion intelligente des packages : sources, versions, dépendances et conflits |
| inférieure | dpkg | Installation et retrait de packages |
| # dpkg -i package1_0.1_i386.deb package2_0.2_i386.deb |
| # dpkg -r package1 |
| # dpkg -r --purge package1 |
| # dpkg-reconfigure package1 |
| % dpkg -S /usr/bin/vim |
| % dpkg -L vim |
| % dpkg -l |
| % man dpkg |
|
deb ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free |
| # apt-get update |
| # apt-get upgrade |
| # apt-get dist-upgrade |
| # apt-get install package1 package2 |
| # apt-get remove package1 |
| # apt-get remove --purge package1 |
| # apt-get clean |
| % man apt-get |