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Debian Package priorities

• Required: Packages are necessary for the proper functioning of the system.


• Important: Packages dhould be found on any Unix-like system.


• Standard: Packages are standard on any Linux system, including a reasonably small but not limited character-mode system.


• Optional: Packages include all those that you might reasonably want to install even if you are unfamiliar with them, and if you don't have specialized requirements.


• Extra: Packages either conflict with others with higher priorities, have little use to users who are unfamiliar with them, or have specialized requirements that make them unsuitable for Optional