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How To Apt-Get Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade, Full-Upgrade, and Their Similarities and Differences?

How To Apt-Get Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade, Full-Upgrade, and Their Similarities and Differences?

deb based distributions provide 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 at this issue. Apt-Get/Apt Update updatecommand will simply get the packages information from repositories. These … Read more

What Is Pfsense and Its Features?

What Is Pfsense and Its Features?

Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ACS, and others, all of them are enterprise, popular and good firewalls. But all of them require some price to pay. Is there any free alternative to these enterprise firewalls? Yes, there are a lot but most of them are not a competitor for them. Pfsense is the most advanced, powerful, … Read more

Linux RPM Command With Examples For CentOS, RedHat, Fedora

Linux RPM Command With Examples For CentOS, RedHat, Fedora

What is Rpm? Rpm is package manager popular in Red Hat-based operating systems.   Rpm full name is Red Hat Package Manager. Rpm uses rpm as package extension and format. Rpm packages are generally distributed from repositories on the internet but using USB, optical media or other ways is popular too in the old days. … Read more

How To Add PPA To Ubuntu, Debian Repository?

Ubuntu and Debian are two popular Linux distributions. They are using deb and apt for package management by default. In default of repositories, there are a lot of different and rich package alternatives. We may need to add some external repositories. PPA is a protocol used to add repositories to the apt. It means personal package archives. Some can … Read more

How To Add New Repository To Apt In Linux?

Apt is a mainstream package management tool. Apt is used by Debian, Ubuntu and a lot of different distributions. Package administration job can be done with Apt very easily. Installing new packages, removing packages, updating packages, resolving dependency of packages, etc. Big distributions like Debian, Ubuntu provides repositories. There are a lot of 3 party … Read more

Yum Command Tutorial With Examples For Linux Package Management Like Install, Update Remove

Linux applications installed (generally) as packages. Packages contain required files like binary, configuration, database, data, graphic, etc. All files packaged to one file named rpm. There is a lot of packages in fedora or other rpm based distribution to manage. Keep in mind that there is also a different version of packages like a1,a2,a3. Packages … Read more

How To List All Repository Packages With Yum Command

I have added a new repository into my repositories and I want to list all packages. Find the total count of packages and filter some of the packages I am interested in. And now we can start the process. List All Repository Packages yum command have list option which will list all packages from currently available repositories. … Read more