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Apt or Advanced Package Tool is a tool or application which is used to manage packages on Linux distributions. In Linux terminology, a package is an application, library, tool which is similar to the program on Windows. Linux distributions generally use centralized repositories to install and update applications where the package is provided by these … Read more
yum is a tool used to manage rpm packages in distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc. Most know feature of yum is using repositories in order to manage packages download and resolve dependencies. In this tutorial, we will examine the yum repository configuration. List Yum Repository Configurations yum repositories are stored as files with related configuration. These configuration files are … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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. … Read more
yum is mainly used by rpm based distributions to manage operating system packages. yum have a lot of features but one of the most used feature is removing packages from operating system. In this tutorial we will look how to delete or remove packages with yum. We need root privileges all uninstall operations. We will … Read more
CentOS and Ubuntu is two popular Linux distributions used in enterprise environments as well as personal environments. In this tutorial we will examine CentOS and Ubuntu Linux distributions from different perspectives. As a note CentOS distribution is free and open version of RedHat Enterprise Linux. So we will compare RedHat and Ubuntu too in this … Read more
When we connect to our Linux systems like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali we see that there is a notification like below. This notification says that we hve new updates and we need to install them. Some of the updates are bug fix and some of the are security update. We will look how to … Read more
Yum is popular package management tools between rpm based distributions. In this tutorial we will simply look how update system packages for different distributions like Fedora, CentOS and RHEL . List Installed Packages Before installing any update best step is listing installed packages. We can list install packages with yum list installed command. $ sudo yum update … Read more
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