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Package managers and installers

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Package managers and installers

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- [Instructor] Imagine you order the new laboratory refrigerator. Someone at the warehouse will need to pack it up and ship to you. And then someone will need to install it. Think of code the same way. Code is reusable, so we use package managers to install packages, libraries, and modules in our workspace. And instead of people like in a lab refrigerator example, code package managers and installers are software. A package manager is the centralized repository of code packages. It makes it easy to download, distribute, install, update, delete and manage software libraries and packages. Its ecosystem is supported and maintained by community effort. So when making libraries and packages, package manager compatibility is a priority. A package installer is a software tool that enables the installation and distribution of libraries and packages from package managers or enabled repositories. Programming languages are…

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