Dpkg

dpkg is the base of the Debian package management system. It was created by Ian Jackson in 1993; it is similar to RPM. It is used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages.

dpkg itself is a low level tool; additional higher level front ends are required to fetch packages from remote locations or resolve complex conflicts in the package dependencies. Debian provides apt for this purpose.

See also: List of Unix programs