What is the best strategy in choosing between the various package types?
41674
What are the differences between snaps, appimage, flatpak and others?
11210
when should I install "*-dev" package?
116858
How to find the list of all available packages along with the lastest version number available in the repositories?
141700
Difference between LiveCD, LiveUSB, full-install, and persistence?
30828
How can I tell which package an executable came from?
138430
Whats best way to package a Java Application with lots of dependencies?
23620
What does the "Basic Ubuntu Server" package contain in software selection during installation?
123958
How do I search for available packages from the command-line?
134143
How do I know what packages I need to install?
104581
What kind of partitioning should I chose?
41157
How are release codenames chosen?
16502
How can I know the dependencies of a certain package?
19120
What is more reliable - apt-mark or APT-pin (/etc/apt/preferences.d/pin) for version locking?
64237
What are best practices for choosing and pairing fonts?
21996
Should I use tasksel, tasks in APT or install regular metapackages?
4329
How can I get a overview and manage the default applications for file types?
57612
How to add optional arguments to a package I'm writing?