How to install the packages mentioned in a file?
Using apt-get, you can easily install any package in debian/ubuntu based system. Suppose you have a list of files mentioned in a file and you want to install all those packages, you can easily do so with the help of the following shell script Suppose the packages to be installed is mentioned in the file [...]
dpkg –get-selections: Get the Current State of Your Ubuntu/Debian machine
dpkg can be used for a variety of purposes. It can be used to install and remove packages. But one of the best feature which you can use is to save the current state of your machine. What is current state of your machine? You may be wondering what does the current state means. Your [...]
How to view the contents of an installed Ubuntu package?
You can find out the package to which a file belongs. Similarly, you can find out the contents of a package. Let’s take the package coreutils which contains the commands like ls, mkdir, rmdir. is the syntax. Take for example Similarly, you can find out the contents of any package, if you are not sure [...]
How to install packages in Ubuntu from Command Line?
Ubuntu offers two tools which can easily help you to install the packages from the command line. The basic package installation steps in Ubuntu are as follows Search for the correct package name to be installed Install the correct package Two important command line tools for package installation in Ubuntu aptitude apt-get Let’s explore each [...]