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What's available?

Install something:

Upgrade stuff: apt-get upgrade

Upgrade everything and remove-install conflicts-dependencies as required: apt-get dist-upgrade

See if something is installed:

See where files from a package ended up (you may want to pipe this through less):

Remove something but leave the configs intact:

Remove something completely (leave no trace):

front-ends to the Debian package system, dpkg.

Is Debian's package system superior to all others? In some ways yes, in others, no. But for my money, it's the best Linux package system available. YMMV.

Yes, CentOS is an RPM-based system derived directly from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

RPM is a lot better than it used to be. The "historical" gripe about RPM was it's lack of tools for automatic dependency resolution. Many solutions are now available for this including yum (CentOS-Fedora-etc), urpmi (Mandriva), yast (SuSE) or even apt-rpm which is an "apt" front-end for RPM systems with all the "apt-get" goodness that's native on Debian. With apt-rpm the advantage-difference between deb-based systems over RPM-based is really a matter of preference IMHO.

Cheers,

James -- To be wise, the only thing you really need to know is when to say "I don't know."