Ubuntu, Debian, Kali and Mint distributions uses apt-get and dpkg commands for package management. We generally use this commands to install or remove packages from Linux systems. But in some cases we may need to list and count installed packages. In this tutorial we will look how to list and count all ready installed packages in Ubuntu, Debian, Kali and Mint. List Installed Packages and Details with dpkg We will start with...
Linux distributions are using package managers in order to install, update and remove applications. In the old days there are very less package managers those are not so good. In to day they are very talented. apt-get command not found is command error type which is shown while installing, updating and removing applications. In this tutorial we will look some error cases and solutions. Error As an example when try...
deb based distributions provides apt or apt-get to manage packages interactively and from network repositories. While updating packages update, upgrade or dist-upgrade can be used. But what is the difference between these two commands. In this tutorial we will look this issue. Update updatecommand will simply get the packages information from repositories. These repositories are remote internet sites those provides packages and their metadata. We will get meta data or...
rpm is the package format used by popular distributions like RHEL, CentPOS, Fedora and Mandriva. We generally prefer to use yum command to install packages from internet automatically and easily. In some cases we may need to install rpm packages solely. In this tutorial we will look how to solve dependency and install rpm package. Linux Rpm Command With Examples Download RPM Package We can get RPM files from different...
