Linux

aptitude cheatsheet

aptitude is a great alternative to apt-get and the best way to install, remove, upgrade, and otherwise administer packages on you system with apt. aptitude solves orphaned dependencies and has a curses interface that blows the doors off of dselect. Finally, and most importantly, it takes advantage of one tool, doing many many operations: Syntax…

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Advantages using aptitude instead of apt-get

apt-get is a command-line package handling utility while aptitude is a high-level interface to the package manager. There isn’t much difference between the two except aptitude will remove unused package dependencies automatically whereas with apt-get you have to do it manually. Neither removes dependencies as that would cause problems. Dependencies are packages that are depended…

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dpkg command cheatsheet

Syntax Description Example dpkg -i {.deb package} Install the package dpkg -i zip_2.31-3_i386.deb dpkg -i {.deb package} Upgrade package if it is installed else install a fresh copy of package dpkg -i zip_2.31-3_i386.deb dpkg -R {Directory-name} Install all packages recursively from directory dpkg -R /tmp/downloads dpkg -r {package} Remove/Delete an installed package except configuration files…

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rpm command cheatsheet

This is a simple cheatsheet for the rpm command and can be used on systems like RedHat that uses the command Syntax Description Example(s) rpm -ivh {rpm-file} Install the package rpm -ivh sendmail-cf-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -ivh –test sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -Uvh {rpm-file} Upgrade package rpm -Uvh sendmail-cf-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -Uvh –test sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8.rpm rpm -ev {package} Erase/remove/ an installed…

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