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Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu


Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions.

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