Debian

[Derek Broughton]

sktsee wrote:

> Any tool that actually manipulates (updates, installs, removes, etc.)
> the the Debian package database ultimately execs dpkg (dpkg being the
> suite of low level tools used for Debian package management) to do the
> grunt work. 
...
> You are correct that most of the high level tools like aptitude link
> to /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.53.0 library. However if you do a
> strace on a command like the following, you'll see the exec calls to
> dpkg to carry out the actual installation of the package:

You have me almost convinced :-) 
-- 
derek