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Software in Ubuntu repositories are divided into five categories:

→main
→universe
→multiverse
→restricted
→partner

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It has only FOSS (free and open source software) that can be distributed freely without any restrictions.

Software in this repository are fully supported by the Ubuntu developers. Ubuntu will provide security updates for these packages until your system reaches EOL.

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This repository also consists free & open source software but Ubuntu doesn’t guarantee regular security updates to software in this category.

Software in this category are packaged and maintained by the community and has a vast amount of open source software

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Multiverse contains the software that are not FOSS. Due to licensing and legal issues, Ubuntu cannot enable this repository by default and cannot provide fix and updates.

It’s up to you to decide if you want to use Multiverse repository.

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Ubuntu tries to provide only free and open source software but that’s not always possible specially when it comes to supporting hardware.

The restricted repositories consist of proprietary drivers.

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This repository consists of proprietary software packaged by Ubuntu for their partners. Earlier, Ubuntu used to provide Skype through this repository.

That was just the brief introduction of official Ubuntu repositories. You can learn a bit more about them in this article 👇

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