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Operating system: Linux: Install: File: What is name of default installer program in Linux versions?
Feb 27th, 2004 03:22
Knud van Eeden,
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--- Knud van Eeden --- 27 February 2004 - 05:49 am -------------------
Operating system: Linux: Install: File: What is name of default
installer program in Linux versions?
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To install .rpm or .deb software you can e.g. use package managers.
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The advantage of this is that it warns you when you want to install
depending on other packages, which you have not installed yet.
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It will also warn if you try to remove packages on which other
packages you are not removing depend.
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The most common installer programs in the Linux distributions are:
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Command line installers:
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Steps: Overview:
1. -Open a console
2. -On the command line type:
apt-get, dpkg or rpm (in Linux Debian)
rpm (in Linux Mandrake) / see also draknet in older versions
rpm (in Linux Red Hat)
rpm (in Linux Slackware)
rpm (in Linux TurboLunix)
rpm (in Linux SuSE)
pkg_add (in Unix FreeBSD)
3. -That will inform about that
default installation program
4. -To install, uninstall, update, remove, query, check status, ...
files (packages) use the appropriate parameters
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Text screen or GUI installers:
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Steps: Overview:
1. -Open a console
2. -On the command line type:
dselect (in Linux Debian)
rpmdrake (in Linux Mandrake)
a GUI based installer 'Add or Remove packages' (in Linux Red Hat)
rpm (in Linux Slackware)
rpm (in Linux TurboLunix)
yast (in Linux SuSE)
3. -That will inform about that
default installation program or otherwise start
it
4. -To install, uninstall, update, remove, query, check status, ...
files (packages) use the appropriate parameters
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Internet: see also:
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Operating system: Linux: Installation: File: Overview: Can you give me
an overview of installation?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/29106/fid/107
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