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Subject Name:-System & Network Administration Presentation Topic: - Getting and Managing Software

The document discusses different methods for getting and managing software on Linux systems. It describes how PackageKit makes it easy to install, remove, and manage software packages. It also explains how to use the RPM and YUM package managers to install software packages and their advantages over using tarballs, which do not track dependencies and versions as easily.

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Subject Name:-System & Network Administration Presentation Topic: - Getting and Managing Software

The document discusses different methods for getting and managing software on Linux systems. It describes how PackageKit makes it easy to install, remove, and manage software packages. It also explains how to use the RPM and YUM package managers to install software packages and their advantages over using tarballs, which do not track dependencies and versions as easily.

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SUBJECT NAME:-

SYSTEM & NETWORK


ADMINISTRATION
PRESENTATION TOPIC:-
GETTING AND MANAGING
SOFTWARE
PRESENTED BY:-
NAMRAIZA ASLAM 02
SODAH NASEEM 10
SYEDA MUBEEN FATIMA 18
SYEDA MUNTAHA BATOOL 22
MAHNOOR SALEEM 27
PRESENTED TO:-
MA’M MARIYA
Getting and Managing
Software
 Linux software management is so easy these
days is a credit to the Linux community,
which has worked diligently to create
packaging formats, complex installation
tools, and high-quality software packages.
Not only is it easy to get the software, but
once it’s installed, it’s easy to manage, query,
update, and remove it.
Managing Software with
PackageKit
 PackageKit is a set of programs that provide
graphical windows, and other components,
for installing, removing, and otherwise
managing software in Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
 Ubuntu uses components of PackageKit, but
not the entire interface.
Tarball

 A tarball, containing executable files


(commands), documentation, configuration
files, and libraries. (A tarball is a single file in
which multiple files are gathered together for
convenient storage or distribution.) When
you install software from a tarball, the files
from that tarball might be spread across your
Linux system in appropriate directories
(/usr/share/man, /etc, /bin, and /lib, to name a
few).
Difficulties with Tarball

 Get dependent software —You


would need to know if the software you were
installing depended on other software being
installed for your software to work. Then you
would have to track down that software and
install that too (which might itself have some
dependencies).
 List the software — Even if you knew
the name of the command, you might not know
where its documentation or configuration files
were located when you looked for it later.
 Remove the software — Unless you
kept the original tarball or a list of files, you wouldn’t
know where all the files were when it came time to
remove them. Even if you knew, you would have to
remove each one individually.
 Update the software — Tarballs are
not designed to hold metadata about the contents
they contain. Once the contents of a tarball are
installed, you may not have a way to tell what
version of the software you are using, making it
difficult to track down bugs and get new versions of
your software.
RPM(Red Hat Package Manager)

 RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is an


default open source and most popular
package management utility for Red Hat
based systems like (RHEL, CentOS and
Fedora).
• The tool allows system administrators and
users to install, update, uninstall, query, verify
and manage system software packages in
Unix/Linux operating systems.
• The RPM formerly known as .rpm file
Facts about RPM

• RPM is free and released under GPL (General


Public License).
• RPM keeps the information of all the installed
packages under /var/lib/rpm database.
• RPM is the only way to install packages under
Linux systems, if you’ve installed packages using
source code, then rpm won’t manage it.
• RPM deals with .rpm files, which contains the
actual information about the packages such as:
what it is, from where it comes, dependencies
info, version info etc.
 There are generally two ways to install RPM
files manually. using a file previously
downloaded to your hard drive install the
RPM from some sort of removable media
such as a CD-ROM drive .
 Where .rpm is an extension of an RPM file.
There are five basic modes for
RPM command
• Install : It is used to install any RPM package.
• Remove : It is used to erase, remove or un-
install any RPM package.
• Upgrade : It is used to update the existing RPM
package.
• Verify : It is used to query about different RPM
packages.
• Query : It is used for the verification of any RPM
package.
What is in an RPM

 To find out the name of an RPM package


currently installed on your system (such as the
Firefox web browser).
 # rpm -q firefox
firefox-10.0.3-1.el6_2.x86_64
From this, you can tell that the basename of the
package is firefox. The release number is10.0.3,
the version number is 1, The firefox package was
built for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (el6_2) and
is compiled for the X86 64-bit architecture
(x86_64).
YUM(YellowDog Updater
Modified)
 YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an
open source command-line as well as
graphical based package management tool
for RPM (RedHat Package Manager)
based Linux systems. It allows users and
system administrator to easily install, update,
remove or search software packages on a
systems.
Working With YUM

 Search for a package when you know the name


$ yum list 'foo‘
 Search for a package when you're not sure of the
name
$ yum search 'foo*‘
$ yum search '*foo?‘
 install and remove a package or multiple packages
# yum install 'foo‘
# yum remove 'foo‘
# yum install 'foo fie fofum‘
# yum remove 'foo fie fofum'
 Update an installed package
# yum update 'foo‘

 List available updates for installed packages


# yum list updates

 Update the whole system:


# yum update
RPM YUM
 RPM can install only single  YUM can install multiple
Package at a time. packages at a time.
 RPM cannot resolve the  YUM can resolve
dependencies. dependencies
automatically.
 YUM can Rollback any
 Cannot Rollback with
changes.
RPM.

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