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Installing various software packages #9

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Installing various software packages Either the package is yet to be installed 
or an older
       version is existing. The student can practice installing the latest version. Of course,
       this might need internet access.
      Install samba and share files to windows
      Install Common Unix Printing System(CUPS)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tshrinivasan on 5 Mar 2011 at 6:09

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Original comment by tshrinivasan on 5 Mar 2011 at 6:26

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Original comment by dhilip....@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2011 at 3:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
- The document doesn't gives overview of what is really a "package" in Linux.

Original comment by saga...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 8:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
oh yes i noticed it too so started writing something , something on these lines 
will it suffice ?

Index: package-installation.txt
===================================================================
--- package-installation.txt    (revision 12)
+++ package-installation.txt    (working copy)
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@

 Author - dhilip.jec@gmail.com

+Software in the FOSS ( Free and Open source ) world comes in source form , 
which is the biggest strength and philosphy of this software developement model 
, havig said that not every one  is capable of recompiling the source and make 
it work on there platforms. The are just intrested in executing the software 
without the necessity of knowing what is going inside the Software , pretty 
much like what you do on other operating systems like Windows or Mac operating 
systems.

+A package is a precompiled bundle of source software to be installed on an 
Operating system .
+
+
 There are numerous package managers available for Linux systems. Several of the package managers offer graphical front-ends, contain search capabilities, allow updates to be installed from remote locations, and provide E-mail notifications when new packages are available. One package manager that provides all of these capabilities is YUM __(YellowDog Updater Modified)__. This manual will provide an introduction to package management with yum.

Original comment by satyaa...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 10:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Here is something i wrote in the mean time,

== What is a package? 
Package is prebuilt opensource component.

Package can be,
      A collection of one or more programs that perform a single well-defined task. This is normally what people think of as an "application". Word processors and programming languages would fit into this category.

      A specific part of an operating system. Examples might be system initialization scripts, a particular command shell, or the software required to support a web server, for example. 

In the beginning there was no package management, users have to compile 
applications from source using GNU maketools.

This method is heavily discouraged as there is no concrete way to 
remove/update/upgrade packages. You might leave behind files when you intend to 
remove them.

The biggest advantage is that the package can contain the knowledge about what 
it takes to install itself on your computer. And if the package contains the 
steps required to install itself, the package can also contain the steps 
required to uninstall itself. What used to be a painful manual process is now a 
straightforward procedure. What used to be a mass of 20,000 files becomes a 
couple hundred packages. 

A package manager keep tracks of the packages installed. It also keep tracks of 
what is inside a package.

<taken from http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ >

Original comment by saga...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 11:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You can also add something about: "Repositories"

Original comment by saga...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 11:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Totally revised this manual, new revision at 
https://code.google.com/p/foss-lab-manual/source/browse/trunk/lab-manual/package
-installation/package-installation.txt?spec=svn32&r=32

Original comment by saga...@gmail.com on 16 Apr 2011 at 4:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks for the contribution Arun. I have a few suggestions. There are
some common sequence of commands, that we usually come across. In the
foss-lab-manual we call them tasks. For the package installation lab,
I suggest that we have the following tasks.

  1. Installing a package
     Given a name of a software app, how do you search for a particular pacakge, 
     install it. And finally how to list the files installed by the package.

  2. Removing a package
     List the packages installed to find out the name of the package. And
     finally remove the package.

  3. Updating a package
     Check if updates are available, update the package. I guess this is
     kind of tricky, since it is not easy to give a solid example(?)

Original comment by bravegnu on 17 Apr 2011 at 9:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Changes in Revision 44:

http://code.google.com/p/foss-lab-manual/source/detail?r=44

- Moved the introduction about package management systems to 
study-material/PackageManagentOverview.txt ( New file)

- Students are given with the task to install and remove bsd-games package 

Changes in Revision 45:

http://code.google.com/p/foss-lab-manual/source/detail?r=45

- Installing VLC and removing it has been added as additional task for the lab. 
It also involves configuring rpmfusion repositories.

Please review and provide your feedback. Thank you.

Original comment by saga...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2011 at 11:26