Linux Software Installation, Part II: General Overview
In my article series regarding software installation on Linux the last article outlined what my position and also point of view is. This article deals tries to give a general overview about the current techniques available on Linux. This is done mainly by linking to different articles and posts.
There are quite some ways to install software on Linux. They can be divided into two areas: the systems provided by the distributions, and the alternative approaches by 3rd parties. Also, there are some information and standards provided by the Linux Foundation. Since Linux.com is featuring a series on the different techniques I will link to many of their articles, but will include official pages and some times other posts as well.
A last word: sometimes you can differentiate between a package manager (like rpm or dpkg) and a software manager (like apt or yum). When this is possible, I will concentrate on the base level, the package manager, because before that isn’t addressed there is no need to start thinking about the software management (like updates, and so on).
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