IT Chapter 11 Textbook Questions

Which option to the dpkg command can be used to list the files that comprise a package?

-L

The Debian Package Manager (DPM) is the default package manager used by Fedora 28. True or False?

False

To install a new program from RPM software repositories on the Internet, you can use the dnf update programname command. True or False?

False

bzip2 and gzip utilities use similar compression algorithms. True or False?

False. bzip uses Burrows-Wheeler Block Sorting Huffman Coding compression algorithm; gzip uses Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm

Which of the following commands extracts an archive?

cpio -vicdu -I /dev/fd0 (in textbook too)

Most source code is typically available on the Internet in tarball format or as a git repository. True or False?

True

The -9 option to the gzip utility results in a higher compression ratio. True or False?

True (if no compression option is chosen, 6 is default)

Which of the following commands can be used to remove the test DPM package, including any test configuration files

apt purge test

which command can be used to create an image backup of a partition?

dd

Which of the following commands should be run following the installation of a shared library to update the /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.cache files?

ldconfig

When compiling source code into a binary program, which does the compiling using the GNU C Compiler?

make

Which of the following commands can be used to list the files contained within an installed RPM package

rpm -ql packagename

Which of the following commands creates an archive

tar -zcvf /dev/st0

Which option to the rpm command can be used to remove a package from the system?

u

Which of the following commands can be used to search for packages that contain the word oobla on RPM software repositories?

yum search oobla

When compiling source code into a binary program, which command performs a system check and creates the Makefile?

./configure

Which dump level indicates a full backup?

0

Which filename extension indicates a tarball?

.tar.xz

Files that have been compressed using the xz utility typically have the _____ extension

.xz

You have created a full backup and four incremental backups. In which order must you restore these backups?

0,1,2,3,4