Exercises

A package is software and related metadata.

A package repository is the web address where the package files can be downloaded.

A package manager is a tool that is used to manage packages. There are commonly CLI and GUI programs for interfacing with a Linux distributions underlying package management system.

We learned about the Advanced Packaging Tool known as apt.

Three ways:

• man apt
• apt --help
• Searching the internet for assistance (reading the apt online documentation)

apt list

/etc/apt

sudo apt update

apt list --installed

apt show [package-name]

apt search [package-name]

Use a search engine! A common phrase for finding valid articles: [package-name] Ubuntu Installation.

sudo apt install [package-name]

sudo apt remove [package-name]

sudo apt upgrade -y

It would auto confirm the apt action being performed including: updating, installing, removing, upgrading.