A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
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…
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…
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…
Open a terminal window. Execute the following terminal command to install the necessary packages sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 Execute the following terminal command sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh After you have done the above excercise, insert a DVD into your drive. Totem will open and the movie will be played.
I’ve installed rkhunter, a rootkit checking script, on a Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbons) distro and today it mailed a message saying that 3 files had their properties changed. The files were /usr/bin/chattr, /usr/bin/lsattr and /usr/bin/perlBefore doing anything I tried to update rkhunter to see if there had been any updates to fix this message rkhunter –update…