{"id":249,"date":"2008-12-21T00:20:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/?p=249"},"modified":"2021-10-06T22:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:43:28","slug":"linux-and-solaris-package-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/systems\/linux\/linux-and-solaris-package-managers.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux and Solaris Package Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; margin-right:15px; margin-top:0px;\">\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 200x200, Netexpertise --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6495750100906580\" data-ad-slot=\"1946825373\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a package managers basic commands quick reminder\/comparative for (in this order)<br \/>\n&#8211; Linux Debian\/Ubuntu,<br \/>\n&#8211; Linux Redhat\/Suse and<br \/>\n&#8211; Solaris\/OpenSolaris.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nrpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get\/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n# List ALL installed packages<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg --list\nrpm -qa | grep rpm\npkginfo<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# Remove package<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg --remove package or\naptitude remove package or\napt-get remove package\nrpm -e package\npkgrm package<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# Package installation<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg --install package or\naptitude install package or\napt-get install package\nrpm -ivh package\npkgadd -d package<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# Package upgrade<\/p>\n<pre>aptitude safe-upgrade package\nrpm -Uvh package<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# Package information<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg --status package or\naptitude show package or\napt-cache show package\nrpm -q --info rpm\npkginfo -x package<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# List package files<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg -L package\nrpm -ql package\npkgchk -l package<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# What package a file belongs to<\/p>\n<pre>dpkg --search \/usr\/bin\/dpkg\nrpm -qf \/usr\/bin\/rpm\npkgchk -lp \/usr\/bin\/ls or\ngrep \"\/usr\/bin\/ls\" \/var\/sadm\/install\/contents<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n# Adding a Repository source<br \/>\nDebian\/Ubuntu<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/apt\/sources.list. Then run aptitude update<\/pre>\n<p>Redhat\/Fedora\/Suse<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/etc\/yum.repos.d\nCreate myown.repo\n[myown]\nname=Myown RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http:\/\/myownrepos\/redhat\/$release\/en\/$basearch\/\ngpgcheck=1\nenabled=1\nImport the GPG key\nrpm --import http:\/\/myownrepos\/packages\/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nDebian advise using aptitude rather than apt-get as it&#8217;s supposed to manage dependancies in a better way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a package managers basic commands quick reminder\/comparative for (in this order) &#8211; Linux Debian\/Ubuntu, &#8211; Linux Redhat\/Suse and &#8211; Solaris\/OpenSolaris. &nbsp; rpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get\/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories. &nbsp; # List ALL installed packages dpkg &#8211;list rpm -qa | grep rpm pkginfo &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,136],"tags":[169,386,76,393,171,170],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Netexpertise - Linux and Solaris Package Managers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/systems\/linux\/linux-and-solaris-package-managers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Netexpertise - Linux and Solaris Package Managers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a package managers basic commands quick reminder\/comparative for (in this order) &#8211; 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