Sometimes you want to know when a package was installed on your operating system, maybe for auditing purposes mostly if you're a Linux System Administrator. In this blog post, I'll show you how to list installed packages by date on [...]
PACKAGE MANAGERS
How to Use Eddy to Install Debian Packages on Elementary OS
Eddy is a simple Debian package management GUI tool in Elementary OS that allows installation of Debian packages by dragging and dropping Debian files onto a GUI window. The tool can be installed straight from App Center platform or installed from [...]
How to Download Packages Using Yum/DNF without Installing on Linux
Today, we’ll take a look at how we can use package managers to download only rpm packages(offline) without installing them with all dependencies on Linux. Yum and Dnf package managers are used in RedHat distributions namely RedHat, CentOS and Fedora [...]
How to Install Debian Packages Offline
With a good and reliable internet connection, installing, updating or upgrading your Debian System is a walk in the park. All that is required of you is to run ‘apt-get update’ or apt-get upgrade’ commands and voila! Your system is [...]
How to Install and Manage Snap Packages on Ubuntu 16.10
Advanced packaging tool, known for acronym apt, have been used in Debian and derivatives for nearly two decades. Similarly on Red Hat based systems, the RPM is used for even longer. To fix shortcomings with this packaging system, AppImage, FlatPak and Snap have [...]
How to Clone Packages in Debian Derived Systems
I love fresh Ubuntu installation on my machines, but I hate to use the dpkg debian package manager tool to backup and restore my packages. The following commands are used to backup ubuntu/debian package selection list. Backup: sudo dpkg --get-selections [...]
How to Install and Remove Packages using DNF
DNF (Dandified YUM) can be considered as the updated version of YUM utility. DNF utility stands far better than other package managers when it comes to memory usage, CPU utilization, and various other performance-related factors. In this tutorial, let us [...]
Wajig - Unified Package Management Front-end for Debian
Debian users - and it’s derivative such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint users - must be familiar with APT (Advanced Package Tool). It’s a tool for package management. APT comes with several tools. Apt-get, apt-cache, apt-mark, apt-key are the examples. [...]
Aptitude - Debian GNU/Linux Package Management Tool
For you who use Debian Linux or Ubuntu and its derivative such as Linux Mint, will surely know about Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) system. As you can guess from its name, apt is used as package management tool. The most [...]