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Installing, removing, or upgrading software packages

Installing, removing, or upgrading software packages - Linux Tutorial

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Installing, removing, or upgrading software packages

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- [Instructor] Managing software packages involve a series of straightforward commands to install, remove, and upgrade software. In this video, we will go over a detailed guide on how to handle these operations in Linux. I will be using Linux CentOS, the latest version, for the demo purposes, because CentOS is similar to Red Hat, which is used in most of the corporate environment. Alright, the first thing we'll learn is how to install a package, a specific package if you want to work on that. So it's a simple command. You'll do DNF install, the package name. You have to provide the exact package name that you're looking for, or if you don't know the exact package name, you could put a package name and put asterisk at the end if it has a trailing word as well. Similarly, if you wanted to remove a package, you will do DNF, and then put in an option of remove, and again, the name of the package, exactly the name of the package. Now be careful here. If you're trying to remove a package…

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