Even if you're not a regular apt user, knowing it can be useful when you need to work at the command line while installing or removing packages for example, on a remote server or when following a how-to published by some helpful soul. You may also need to know a bit about Dkpg mentioned above ; for example, some software creators provide a bare.
I find the Synaptic package manager to be a really useful tool on my desktop, but I also use apt on a handful of servers that I maintain for various purposes.
Download our apt cheat sheet to get used to the command and try some new tricks with it. Once you do, you might find it hard to use anything else.
Great article Chris. I'm a long time 'apt' user but I learned more from your article. Linux package management with apt Opensource. Learn how to install packages on Debian-based Linux distros with the apt command, then download our cheat sheet to keep the right command at your fingertips.
Image by :. Get the highlights in your inbox every week. Aptitude is an Ncurses-based full-screen command-line front end for apt. There are apt-get , apt-cache , and other predecessors of apt. Dpkg is the "behind the scenes" package manager apt uses to do the heavy lifting. More Linux resources.
Our latest Linux articles. However, experimental versions of Ubuntu use the new snap package manager. Configuring access to software repositories. Slackware and Slackware Based Distributions. The table below lists package management utilities found in Slackware Linux and other Slackware-based distributions. As stated by Patrick Volkerding on several occasions, Slackware is unlikely to ever have any advanced i. Nevertheless, slackpkg , an advanced package management tool which for years had been relegated to the unsupported "extra" repository, was finally made part of Slackware Linux It's worth noting that some popular Slackware derivatives, such as VectorLinux , have standardised on slapt-get , another third-party utility imitating the behaviour of Debian's APT, while Zenwalk Linux has introduced its own package management tool called netpkg.
Independent Linux Distributions. In the next group we have a few mostly independent distributions that have been gaining popularity in recent years.
Sabayon Linux, although derived from Gentoo, has introduced its own command-line package management utility called equo. Arch Linux's Pacman has been around for a long time and it's often considered one of the fastest package management utilities around. PiSi , originally developed by Pardus Linux, is a relatively new utility which has been reworked into the eopkg utility, used by Solus.
Gentoo will update the build-from-source scripts and the updating of the database takes much more time than updating the database for Debian or Alpine. For source compile, see the Aports tree and the abuild tool. Note: This process can be used to backport packages from testing and unstable by simply adding their respective source repositories to sources.
This is explored further in the "Architectures and repositories" section below. Note: On Gentoo, it's actually much better to install and use either the esearch package or the eix package to do a search. You use them like this:. Make sure you have backups of your configuration files. Using rcs might be an idea. You will mostly like to take a quick look at the dependencies before you remove packages recursively.
This can be useful e. Updating and upgrading through YUM is very simple, where the following command handles both tasks:. YUM does not include an autoremove command for finding and removing unused dependencies, however it does include a great feature for installing a package from a URL, which Apt does not include:.
ZYpp utilizes. ZYpp is extremely easy to use, as it includes command shortcuts which can be used in place of the full command. DNF is the default package manager for Fedora 22 and higher, and should become the default system in CentOS in the future. Entropy is the default package management system for Sabayon Linux , a Gentoo derivitave. What makes Entropy interesting is Sabayon utilizes binary files through Entropy, and also source code through Gentoo's package management system, Portage.
A basic rundown for this system is as follows:. Entropy also includes shortcuts for brevity. Pacman is the default package management system for Arch Linux and its derivitaves, and is a complete package manager, not relying on underlying systems or frontends to resolve dependencies.
Pacman utilizes a simple compressed. Think of pacman as a system to automate the process of manually building software from source code. Pacman utilizes a "helper" program, Yaourt, to install unofficial software found in the Arch User Repository, and when doing so, the command "pacman" is replaced by "yaourt.
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