seat 3. chapter 2 managing software

Question 1

What is packages?P49

Answer 1

It is basic information that package systems maintain the information about software packages and has a collection of files that are installed on the computer.

Question 2

One of the most important types of information maintained by the package system is —— —— .P49

Answer 2

dependence information.

Question 3

Both the RPM and Debian package systems provide tools to help create —- —– from source code.P49

Answer 3

binary packages.

Question 4

The most popular package manager in the Linux world is the — —– —?P50

Answer 4

RPM package manager

Question 5

Who developed RPM for its own distribution?P50

Answer 5

Red hat

Question 6

Red hat has splintered into what three distributions?P50

Answer 6

home users ,student, and businesses

Question 7

What is package name?P51

Answer 7

It is a name of a package such as samba or samba-server for the samba file and print server.

Question 8

What does build number represent?P51

Answer 8

It represents minor changes made by the package maintainer, not by the program author.

Question 9

What is the description for - i?P53

Answer 9

Installs a package;system must not contain a package of the same name.

Question 10

what is the description for -u?P53

Answer 10

installs a new package or upgrades an existing one.

Question 11

What is the description for - for - - freshen?P53

Answer 11

Upgrades a package only if an earlier version already exist.

Question 12

What is the description for - q?P53

Answer 12

Queries a package-finds whether a package is installed,what files it contains, and so on.

Question 13

What is the description for -e?P53

Answer 13

uninstalls a package.

Question 14

What is the description for -b?P53

Answer 14

Builds a binary package, given source code and configuration files; moved to the rpmbuild program with rmp version 4.2.

Question 15

What is the description for - - rebuildob?P53

Answer 15

Rebuilds the RPM database to fix errors.