Linux Tutorial Series – 136 – Review

Here is the video version, if you prefer it:

We talked about compression and package management. Here is a review of the most important things:

• Use gzip fileName and gunzip fileName for archives ending in gz
• Use tar cvf archiveName.tar file1 file2 … for creating a tar archive file and use tar xvf archiveName.tar to extract a tar archive
• To update your package list, run apt-get update (prefixed with sudo)
• apt-get install packageName to install packages from a package repository or dpgk -i packageFileName to install a package from a file
• sudo apt --purge remove packageName to remove a package, then sudo apt --purge autoremove to remove its dependencies
• To upgrade your packages, run apt-get upgrade
• /etc/apt/sources.list keeps a list of repositories Linux looks into when it is searching for new packages

I hope you refreshed your memory!