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Installing Program: Csnb113 System Administration College of Information Technology Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

The document discusses package management in UNIX systems. It introduces apt and dpkg as the main package management tools in Debian/Ubuntu systems. Apt is used to install, upgrade, remove packages from repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list. It also searches for packages. Dpkg is a lower level tool to directly install and manage packages. The document provides examples of common apt and dpkg commands.

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Installing Program: Csnb113 System Administration College of Information Technology Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

The document discusses package management in UNIX systems. It introduces apt and dpkg as the main package management tools in Debian/Ubuntu systems. Apt is used to install, upgrade, remove packages from repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list. It also searches for packages. Dpkg is a lower level tool to directly install and manage packages. The document provides examples of common apt and dpkg commands.

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Chapter 7 Installing Program

CSNB113 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION College of Information Technology Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
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Objectives
O apt as package manager
O Managing program using apt O dpkg as advance package manager

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Introduction
O UNIX is quite fragmented in the area of

package management O No standard tool to install and remove packages

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Packages
O Package all software, including installation

instructions, helper files, documentation (the famous 'man'-pages) into a package; a bit like an archive

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Storage for Packages


O /etc/apt/sources.list

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APT
O Advance Package Tool - Management system

for software packages

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Updating Packages
O Resynchronize the package index files from

their sources O Indexes of available packages location(s): /etc/apt/sources.list O Should perform before upgrade
# apt-get update

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Upgrading Packages
O Install newest versions of all packages

currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list O An update must be performed first so that aptget knows that new versions of packages are available
# apt-get upgrade

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Installing/Removing Packages
Command # apt-get install # apt-get remove Get Description Performs installation of the packages or upgrading of the current filename Performs removing the packages

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Searching Packages
O Searches package names, short descriptions,

package name on all available package list


# apt-cache search <word>

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Searching Packages
O Example: I want to search any package that

consists game
# apt-cache search game

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Description Packages
O Display the specific information about the

selected package
# apt-cache show <package>

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Description Packages
O Example: I want to know more about gnibbles

package
# apt-cache search gnibbles

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dpkg
O Tool to install, build, remove and manage

Debian packages - Useful for complex tasks O dpkg command O Common options:
O -l : list packages matching give pattern O -L : list files installed to your system from

package-name

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References
1. Das, S. (2012). Your UNIX/LINUX The

Ultimate Guide: Third Edition. McGraw-Hill 2. Hahn, H. (2008). Harley Hahn's Guide to Unix and Linux. California: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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