Week 3 Package Managers & Background

Personal Package Archive (PPA)

A software repository for uploading source packages to be built and published as an Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) repository by Launchpad.

Chocolatey

A third party package manager for windows

apt update

Before you install software, which of the following commands should you run to get an updated version of your software?

orca.exe

How to find out detail of what goes into a MSI file, or want to create a Windows installer package yourself.

/etc/repository_sources

In Ubuntu, where are repository sources listed?

sudo apt update

In ubuntu how do you get the most up-to-date software in your repositories?

sudo apt upgrade

In ubuntu how do you upgrade any packages on your machine?

Package Manager

Makes sure that the process of software installation, removal, update, and dependency management is as easy and automatic as possible

Repositories

Servers that act like a central storage location for packages

setup-script

Using Ubuntu when you install a program, what is the name of the file that shows the installation information?

sudo apt install gimp

Using linux how would you install the program gimp?

sudo apt remove gimp

Using linux how would you remove the program gimp?

install-package -name sysinternals

What command do you use for powershell to install a package?

get-package -name sysinternals

What command do you use for powershell to retrieve a downloaded package?

uninstall-package -name sysinternals

What command do you use for powershell to uninstall a package?

Advanced Package Tools (APT)

What is the package manager in Ubuntu called?

Install-package -name awesomesoftware -source chocolatey

Which of the following PowerShell commands will install the package "awesomesoftware" from the Chocolatey software source?