Some of the information in this table was derived (with permission) from APT and RPM Packager Lookup Tables. (forcing a new download of same on next use) Remove header files from the local cache directory Remove only obsolete packages from the local cache directory Remove packages from the local cache directory List configuration files in a package fileĭpkg-deb -extract b dir-to-extract-toįind package that provides a particular file List documentation files in a package file

Show the packages a given package depends on List configuration files in an installed packageĭpkg-query -show -f '$ ' package_name List documentation files in an installed package Get information about an installed package Get information about an available package Remove a package with configuration files The dpkg command is used instead.īelow is a table of equivalent commands for package management on both Ubuntu/Debian and Red Hat/Fedora systems. Note that, unlike yum, apt-get is only for packages available in repositories - it cannot handle packages you have already downloaded.

Ubuntu uses apt-get instead of yum, up2date and so on to find, download, and install packages and their dependencies. Press System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager to start Synaptic. The Synaptic package Manager is an excellent tool for finding, fetching and installing packages. As with Fedora, graphical applications will put a link into the Applications menu. Ubuntu has more packages available than Fedora, so you'll have a better chance of finding what you want in the repositories. Graphical admin tools prompt for this password when run, and command line tools can be run with root-privileges using sudo. Users in the admin group can run command line and graphical applications with elevated privileges. In Ubuntu, each user only has one password. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora by default, each administrative user needs to know the root password, in addition to their own password. The key differences between them are covered in this article. It is easy to apply your existing knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora to Ubuntu.

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