LPI Linux Acceptance LPIC1 Assay 101 Use Debian amalgamation administration

 11 July 15:06   

    Modified: 2003-March-17

    Maintainer: Kara Pritchard

    Weight: 8

    Description: Candidates should be able to accomplish amalgamation administration abilities using the Debian amalgamation manager. This cold includes getting able to use command-line and alternate accoutrement to install, upgrade, or uninstall packages, as able-bodied as acquisition bales absolute specific files or software (such bales ability or ability not be installed). This cold aswell includes getting able to access amalgamation advice like version, content, dependencies, amalgamation candor and accession cachet (whether or not the amalgamation is installed).

     Key files terms and utilities include:

    unpack

    configure

    /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg

    /var/lib/dpkg//etc/apt/apt.conf

    /etc/apt/sources.list

    dpkg

    dselect

    dpkg-reconfigure

    apt-get

    alien

    In adjustment to accept how to use Debians amalgamation administration system, it would be advantageous to first accept an compassionate of how a Debian amalgamation is named. For example, the amalgamation ncftp_3.1.3-1_i386.deb has 5 above parts:

    Note that there is appropriate acceptation to the use of underscores(_) and hyphens(-); an accentuate shall separate the name of the program and its version, a abutment shall separate a adaptation amount and the afterlight number, and an accentuate shall separate the afterlight amount and the architecture.

    dpkg is the grandaddy or back-end of the Debian Amalgamation administration System. Appearance present in the added avant-garde accoutrement are not accessible to dpkg but it is about a advantageous tool.

    Some notes:

    Some of the added accepted functions acclimated by administrators by dpkg are:

    Adding, Removing, and Configuring Packages

    Querying Amalgamation Information

    Updating Amalgamation Information

    dpkg-reconfigure reconfigures bales afterwards they accept already been installed.

    APT HOWTO

    http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html

    dselect Affidavit for Beginners

    http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/dselect-beginner/