Lesson 2

Date: 1/29/2014
Linux installation and upgrade
Linux for Engineering and IT Applications


APT Enchancements


  • Aptitude is a menu-driven, text-based front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) system.

  • Synaptic is a graphical package management front-end for APT. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

  • Tasksel ia a tool for selecting installation of a group of packages for specific tasks. For example, DNS, SMTP, etc.


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