Lesson 14

Date: 4/30/2014
Course review and Final exam discussion
Linux for Engineering and IT applications


What you should know for the Final exam


  • Understand the base concepts of the Linux OS and application management: review the lectures, textbook chapters, and references to the online material.

  • Learn how to lookup for the procedures and howtos: complete the unfinished exercises.

  • Be familiar with one of the text editors: nano or vi

  • Know how to use man pages to lookup the information about commands: read the NAME, SYNOPSYS, and the first two sentences of the DESCRIPTION, then slide down to the EXAMPLES section. Try, for example: 
    man find
man tar

  • Know how to manage deb packages with dpkg, apt-get, and apt-cache. For example, to see all installed packages: 
    dpkg -l
    Is package with vi editor installed? 
    dpkg -l | grep -w vi
    Is paraview package available on APT: 
    apt-cache search paraview --names-only
    Show the package description: 
    apt-cache apt-cache show paraview

  • Understand network fundamentals: IP addresses and routing, network settings. TCP and UDP ports.

    • Take me to the Course Website