Linux Basic Administration Concepts
Installing Software
In the linux world software comes in three main formats:
- RPM Packages - Files with an .rpm
extension, containing binaries for a specific distribution.
- Source code - Files with .tar.gz,
.tgz or .tar.bz2 extensions, containing compressed source
code of the program.
- Installers - Usually commercial software, which
comes with a sinlgle binary that you should run to intall the software.
- Apt - an enhanced installer, which can
automatically download and install a program, together with the components
it depends on. Comes from the Debian
GNU/Linux system.
Originally written by
Alon Altman