Understanding Software Installation and Package Management

Question 1

What is the underlying package manager for red hat?

Answer 1

RPM

Question 2

What are the high level package managers for rpm?

Answer 2

yum, dnf, zypper they sit on top of rpm

Question 3

What is the purpose of using a higher level package manager?

Answer 3

Install dependencies

Question 4

What are the high level package managers for dpkg?

Answer 4

apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic

Question 5

What Distributions use dpkg?

Answer 5

Debian, Ubuntu, Mint etc.

Question 6

What distros use RPM?

Answer 6

Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, etc.

Question 7

What is the command to search for software using the rpm high level package managers?

Answer 7

sudo yum search apache

Question 8

What is the command to install software using the rpm high level package managers?

Answer 8

sudo yum install httpd

Question 9

What is the command to show all installed software on host?

Answer 9

sudo yum list installed

Question 10

What command to update all packages or just one?

Answer 10

sudo yum update
sudo yum update httpd

Question 11

What command to remove a package?

Answer 11

sudo yum remove httpd

Question 12

What command to remove a package and all associated dependencies?

Answer 12

sudo yum autoremove

Question 13

What command to search for apache, and then only show first 10 lines in output?

Answer 13

sudo yum search apache | head