Debian package management
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- # the Debian APT = Advanced Packaging Tool
- # update and upgrade
- $ sudo apt-get update # update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources
- $ sudo apt-get upgrade # upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list
dealing with packages files (.deb)
- # which files are included? will be created from this package file?
- $ ...
- # what's the official package name?
- $ ...
- # what's the content of this package file?
- $ ...
- # ...
- $ ...
dealing with installed packages
- # which packages are installed (together with details)?
- $ ... --list
- # details of an installed package
- $ ... --list PACKAGE
- # what's the content of an installed package?
- $ ... --listfiles ...
- # ...
- $ ...
rpm2deb
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software)
- https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien : alien -k ...
Open questions:
- how to deal with dependencies specified within the RPM package?
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