Debian – Software-Center (like in Ubuntu) in Debian

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I wondered if there is some easy to use Software-Center in Debian as well. (You can search and install software easily with it.)

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Software Center

The program can be used to add and manage repositories as well as Ubuntu Personal Package Archives (PPA) and on Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Software Center also allows users to purchase commercial applications.

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There is a version of Software Center in Debian 7: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/software-center However, it does not offer commercial software.

That package is not available in Debian Testing or Sid. Interestingly, the Gnome package "Software", which is the same kind of gui affair is marked as being "not in Debian" for Gnome 3.12.

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It's not fool-proof, but this will give a good indication:

dpkg-deb -c virtualbox-5.1_5.1.12-112440\~Debian\~stretch_amd64.deb|grep etc/apt

In this case nothing is found, so it looks like the package doesn't add a repository.

We're specifically looking for files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. It's not fool-proof because packages could add a repository in their postinst. You can examine the latter using

dpkg-deb --ctrl-tarfile virtualbox-5.1_5.1.12-112440\~Debian\~stretch_amd64.deb|tar xf - ./postinst

then reading the extracted postinst (which confirms that the package doesn't add a repository).

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