From the course: Choosing a Linux Distribution
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Software management - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Choosing a Linux Distribution
Software management
- [Narrator] One major way that distros differ from one another is by which tools they use to manage software packages. There are three general ways to add and modify software on a system. These are building software ourselves by compiling source code, and then moving the resulting files to the appropriate places on the file system, downloading pre-built programs in an archive or individually, and moving them into place, or by using packages, which are files that contain both of the software we want and the instructions to put the files in their appropriate places. In order to use packages, we use package managers, tools that can read these packages and follow the instructions within them on our behalf. There are many different package managers out there, including APT, DNF, YUM, pacman, Zypper, APK, and others. Because working with packages to install, update, and remove software is such an important part of a Linux…
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