Day 07:Package Manager
1)What is a package manager in Linux?
A package manager is a tool that allows users to install, remove, upgrade, configure and manage software packages on an operating system. The package manager can be a graphical application like a software center or a command lines tool like apt-get.
2)What is a package?
A package is usually referred to as an application but it could be a GUI application, command line or a software library. A package is essentially an archive file containing the binary executable, configuration file and sometimes information about the dependencies.
3)Different kinds of package managers
Package Manager can be different for different Linux distro.
Debian and Ubuntu apt
CentOs and RHEL yum , dnf
I)To install Docker on Ubuntu, follow these steps:
Install and Update the package index,
sudo apt install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker.io
And installation can be checked as
docker -v
II)To install Jenkins on Ubuntu, follow these steps:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install jenkins
sudo systemctl enable jenkins
5)Difference in systemctl and systemd
Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux systems that provides many powerful features for managing processes and system resources. systemctl is command line utility that is used to control and manage the systemd system and service manager.
Thank you for reading!!!