As I've grown more comfortable with Linux, I've discovered alternative methods of installing apps. Sometimes, they're better ...

the Lineox rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But if you prefer apt, the associated tools can be installed on most Linux distributions. In this chapter, you'll learn the fundamentals of apt, ...

Chrome/Firefox/Opera (in Linux): Web sites will often provide the apt-get command for installing a piece of software on Linux. This Greasemonkey script will turn those commands into clickable links, ...

When it comes to package management on Linux systems, two popular tools are YUM and APT. YUM, short for Yellowdog Updater Modified, is commonly used in Red Hat-based distributions like CentOS and RHEL ...

When you use the apt command to install new packages or run routine upgrades on your Debian-based Linux system, you might wonder where information about your activities are being recorded. For one, ...

If you want to install a program on the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint Linux distribution family, you almost always end up using the core software installer program Advanced Package Tool (apt). It works well, but ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to mark a package on an Ubuntu system such that it won’t upgrade when the apt-get upgrade command is issued. You probably have a lot of ...