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As you may already know, managing software in Debian is done through tools like Synaptic and apt-get. These are called packages and are (mostly) freely available on the internet. Linux software packages are held on online libraries called repositories.
When you first install Debian, it will have automagically installed some default repositories to get you started, but this is the tip of the iceberg as far as they go.

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