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I use pacman in Arch Linux for installing packages.

  • The command for installing is pacman -S,

  • The command for a full system upgrade is pacman -Syu and

  • The command for repository update is pacman -Syy.

I want to know what is the equivalent for pacman in Ubuntu and its corresponding command.

Melebius
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I have to refer you to this link from Arch Wiki which compares pacman commands with other package managers:

Arch            Debian/Ubuntu

pacman -[S|Q]i  apt show / apt-cache policy
pacman -Qi      dpkg -s / aptitude show
pacman -Si      apt-cache show / aptitude show
pacman -Ql      dpkg -L
pacman -Fl      apt-file list $pattern
pacman -Qo      dpkg -S / dlocate
pacman -Ql      dpkg-query -L
pacman -Fo      apt-file search
pacman -Fs      apt-file search
pacman -Qc      apt-get changelog

pacman -Ss      apt search
pacman -Qu      apt-get upgrade -> n
pacman -Sl      apt-cache dumpavail
...
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A shot from page:

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Ubuntu is Debian based Linux distro. It uses the APT for package management.

Command for updating the repositories

sudo apt-get update

Command for updating the system packages

sudo apt-get upgrade

Command for installation of package

sudo apt-get install <package_name>
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  • This Answer should probably be reordered a bit since apt-get update should always be the very first command to run. – derHugo Sep 13 '17 at 05:29
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    apt should be used instead of apt-get, the manpage says: It is intended as an end user interface and enables some options better suited for interactive usage by default compared to more specialized APT tools like apt-get(8) and apt-cache(8). – dessert Sep 13 '17 at 05:57
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    In the latest versions of Ubuntu, use apt instead of apt-get, e.g. sudo apt update. The newer command apt has been optimised in certain ways; see this answer. – Paddy Landau Sep 20 '17 at 10:54