Overview
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Discover how to efficiently add software to your Linux system with packages. Learn how to manage packages on RedHat and CentOS, as well as Debian, Ubuntu, and related distros.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Package managers
- What is package management?
- Package naming
- Environment setup and exercise files
- The RPM and YUM package managers
- Searching for a package
- Downloading a package file
- Finding package information
- Explore package dependencies
- Installing a package
- Checking what software is installed
- Installing groups of packages
- Removing a package
- Upgrading a package
- Installing from source
- Managing YUM repositories
- The dpkg and APT package managers
- Searching for a package
- Downloading a package
- Finding package information
- Installing a package
- Checking what software is installed
- Exploring aptitude
- Removing a package
- Upgrading a package
- Installing from source
- Managing APT repositories
- Understanding Zypper
- Searching for a package
- Installing a package
- Finding out what's installed
- Package versions and updates
- Removing a package
- Managing Zypper repositories
- Managing packages with YaST
- Next steps
