In this article, let us learn about the command “apt install -y”. When I was a complete beginner and I needed to install something on my Ubuntu machine, I went online and typed in “How to install <software name> on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint” and it led me to a page with some commands which looked like this … Read more
In this article, let us learn about the command “apt-get -y”. When I was a complete beginner and I needed to install something on my Ubuntu machine, I went online and typed in “How to install <software name> on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint” and it led me to a page with some commands which looked like this I … Read more
In this article, let us learn about the command “sudo apt-get install”. When I was a complete beginner and I needed to install something on my Ubuntu machine, I went online and typed in “How to install <software name> on Ubuntu” and it led me to a page with some commands which looked like this … Read more
This article is all about demystifying the “sudo apt install” command by learning what it does and how it does it! For those of you in a hurry, here is the “Short Version” of the answer! sudo apt install: In a Nutshell! A simple answer to the question: what does “sudo apt install“ do? would be … Read more
In this article, let us learn about the command “sudo apt upgrade”. When I was a complete beginner and I needed to install something on my Ubuntu machine, I went online and typed in “How to install <software name> on Ubuntu” and it led me to a page with some commands which looked like this … Read more
This article is all about demystifying the “sudo apt update” command by learning what it does and how it does it! For those of you in a hurry, here is the “Short Version” of the answer! sudo apt update: In a Nutshell! A simple one-line answer to the question: what does “sudo apt update” do? would … Read more
In this article, let us learn about the command “sudo apt-get update”. When I was a complete beginner and I needed to install something on my Ubuntu machine, I went online and typed in “How to install <software name> on Ubuntu” and it led me to a page with some commands which looked like this … Read more
When I was a complete beginner and I needed to do something on my Fedora or CentOS machine, I frequently came across some commands which looked like this I was just happy that I was able to type something in the Terminal and it actually worked! I did not pay much attention to what I … Read more
In this article let’s look at the 2 most popular package management software apt and dnf and analyze their similarities and differences in detail. A Quick Comparison of APT and DNF APT DNF APT stands for Advanced Packaging Tool DNF stands for DaNdiFied (Dandified) Yum apt works with packages in the .deb format dnf works … Read more
When I started my distro-hopping journey experimenting with various Linux distros, I noticed a pattern where one set of distros used apt commands while the other set of distros used the dnf or yum command to install software on my system. Let’s go ahead and look at a list of Linux Distros that use the apt commands. List … Read more