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What is a software package? |
A software package is a compressed file that contains scripts, program files. And directories requited to install and run an application. The package also includes a list of software it depends on to run correctly. We could consider these packages similar to a .zip or .rar in windows. |
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What format do software packages come in in Arch Linux? |
.tar |
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What format do software packages come in in CentOS and RedHat? |
.rpm |
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What format do software packages come in in Ubuntu? |
.deb |
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What command is used to install a package without using a package manager? |
make install |
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What is a package manager? |
A software that allows you to install, upgrade and remove packages. Package managers also allow the ability to easily search for available software
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What does yum stand for? |
Yellowdog updater modified. |
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List 3 pro's of package managers. |
(1) Package managers can keep track of all files and folders that are created when installing a package.
(2) Package managers can find all software dependencies and install them.
(3) Do not release upgrades. |
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What is a con of package managers? |
Release upgrades through package managers are not recommended.
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What is a software dependency? |
If we have two pieces of software: Software A and Software B, then for software A to function properly, software B needs to be installed on the computer
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What are repositories? (4) |
(1) Can be on the internet, CD/DVD's (2) Can be located on your own local network (Company based repositories) (3) Contain software packages (4) Contains pre-compiled software for each specific distribution of Linu
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What is a commonly used 3rd Party Repo? |
RPM-Forge. |
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What is yum dependent on? |
RPM. |
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What is RPM? (2) |
(1) RPM can only process .rpm packages (2) When YUM is required to process .rpm packages it runs RPM
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What is the yum command to search for a package? |
yum search |
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What is the yum command to list packages? |
yum list |
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What is the yum command to list what provides a file? |
yum what provides |
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What is the yum command to update packages? |
yum update |
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What is the yum command to install a package? |
yum install |
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What is the yum command to remove a package? |
yum remove |
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What is the rpm command to find if a package is installed? |
rpm -q |
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What is the rpm command to list what provides a file |
rpm -qf |
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What is the rpm command to update packages? |
rpm -U |
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What is the rpm command to install a package? |
rpm -ivh |
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What is the rpm command to remove a package? |
rpm -e |
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What is apt? |
Advanced Packaging Tool - Used in debian based OS's such as Ubuntu. |
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What is pacman? |
Package Manager used in Arch Linux. |
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What are the yum commands for group package installs? (3) |
(1) yum grouplist (2) yum groupinfo 'groupname' (3) yum groupinstall 'groupname'
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What is the recommended format of the make & make install command? |
# make && make install |
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What must be present to run the make commands? |
A c compiler must be present to run the make commands.
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