Packages contains the executable and a fileinfo (description, dependencies to other packages,..)


1)A repository is an an index file hosted on a server

2)This index references packages hosted on the same server

3) To find a package, your package manager will look in all indexes files and access the corresponding repository hosting the package. Then it will do 1) then 2)

4) For packages that need dependencies (libraries for example), go to 3). It's recursive.

Ah well, I tried