The following terms will be useful to you throughout this book and
in general when you’re talking about Debian.
Package. A file that contains everything needed to install,
de-install, and run a particular program. The program that handles
packages is dpkg. dselect is a front-end to dpkg. Experienced users
often use dpkg to install or remove a package.
Package names. All package names have the form xxxxxxxxxxx.deb.
Sample package names include the following:
◼ efax_08a-1.deb
◼ lrzsz_0.12b-1.deb
◼ mgetty_0.99.2-6.deb
◼ minicom_1.75-1.deb
◼ term_2.3.5-5.deb
◼ uucp_1.06.1-2.deb
◼ uutraf_1.1-1.deb
◼ xringd_1.10-2.deb
◼ xtel_3.1-2.deb