Installing updates for software packages or the kernel itself, is a highly recommended and beneficial task for system administrators; more especially when it comes to security updates or patches. While security vulnerabilities are discovered,...
On CentOS/RHEL, you can either install packages individually or install multiple packages in a single operation in a group. Package group contain packages that perform related tasks such as development tools, web server (for...
In this editorial, we take a look at a great and powerful utility called apt-fast that you can use to speed up downloading packages by APT or Aptitude. apt-fast is an open-source shell script...
One thing a new Linux user will get to know as he/she progresses in using it is the existence of several Linux distributions and the different ways they manage packages. Package management is very...
