When you use the apt command to install new packages or run routine upgrades on your Debian-based Linux system, you might wonder where information about your activities are being recorded. For one, ...

What is a Linux repository? A Linux repository is a storage location from which your system retrieves and installs OS updates and applications. Each repository is a collection of software hosted on a ...

When it comes to package management on Linux systems, two popular tools are YUM and APT. YUM, short for Yellowdog Updater Modified, is commonly used in Red Hat-based distributions like CentOS and RHEL ...

Chrome/Firefox/Opera (in Linux): Web sites will often provide the apt-get command for installing a piece of software on Linux. This Greasemonkey script will turn those commands into clickable links, ...

Linux 101: How to hold packages back from getting upgraded with apt Your email has been sent Jack Wallen shows you how to mark a package on an Ubuntu system such that ...

Updating all the software on your system can be a pain, but with Linux it doesn’t have to be that way. We’ll show you how to combine the apt package management system with a task scheduler to ...