In fact, if you wanted to tackle either task you were bound for the command line.

This article provides some useful commands that will help you to handle package management in Debian/Ubuntu based systems.Of course, at the time, most everyone trying their hand at Linux knew they were getting into something that would require some work. But even though Linux has evolved into the user-friendly operating system it is, there are still some systems that are fundamentally different than their Windows counterparts.So it is always best to understand those systems in order to be able to properly use those system.Using “search” with apt-cache will display a list of matched packages with short description.Let’s say you would like to find out description of package ‘vsftpd‘, then command would be.