The apt-get can also be used to un-install a package and update a package. It is referred as front end of dpkg in a sense that real package manager is still dpkg.Ī part from installing new software apt-get do the dependency work for you, as its automatically install all dependencies and also do configuration settings for you. To overcome the limitations of dpkg, software developers invented the apt-get utility for Debian based distribution. It may prompt you with message that software you trying to install is dependent on some library which is missing please install it first. There is no guarantee that software which you are trying to install may got installed in first go. Let say we need to find package of networkctl file: To find out which package a file belongs. To remove a package let say name tcl, we use: In Debian based distribution the installable binaries of software came in the form of files with. In this article I am going to explain how package manager works in a Debian based distribution.Īlthough name of package manger differs in rpm based distribution but the principle on which package manager works remain the same. Thanks to Linux package manager users nowadays don't have to bear all that. You download a tar file from Internet and go through its readme file and then when you start installing it you were prompted that the software you trying to install has dependency on some X library when you try to install X library you were told that X has dependency on Y please install first Y and the story continuous on. One of the most challenging thing at that time was installing a software on your Linux distribution.
We were happy to use Windows in those days since we can easily play our media files in it. Though there were many other such limitations in those days that classify Linux as an operating system only for experts only. Excuse me!!! No media files? Our answer was no media files means no computer for us.
I remember when I started using Linux back in 2007 I have to issue mount command in shell to mount my USB stick for using it on Redhat Linux.Īs a student we were mostly reluctant in using Linux since we were told that you can’t play your media files in Linux.
It’s has almost everything that an operating system has to be classified as user friendly.īelieve me those were opinions of people who used Linux back in early 2000.
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