I'm quite new to debian and I'm getting my head around dpkg, apt-get, aptitude and synaptic. Does anyone have advice on the best way to handle a .deb package? Can I make up my own repository of .deb packages and point apt-get at that to install packages? I've installed one or two small things (gcc and gnu make) using dpkg, but I wondered if there was a better way to do this. I've just downloaded opera and it comes in a .deb package, so this is my next task. apt or dpkg - or even synaptic?
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