Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Available package managers on different Linux flavors

Here is the list of package managers available in different Linux flavour, for managing packages like searcing installing removing the package from the system.

Task to perfomr and commands
apt (deb file formats)
zypp (rpm)
yum/dnf (rpm)
urpmi (rpm)
Debian, Ubuntu
openSUSE
Fedora, CentOS
Mandriva, Mageia
Install new software from package repository
apt-get/apt install package_name/apt install package_name
zypper install package_name
yum install package_name
urpmi package_name
Install new software from package file
dpackage_name -i package_name
zypper install package_name
yum localinstall package_name
urpmi package_name
Update existing software
apt-get/apt install package_name
zypper update -t package package_name
yum update package_name
urpmi package_name
Remove unwanted software
apt-get/apt remove package_name
zypper remove package_name
yum erase package_name
urpme package_name
System update




Update the system
apt-get/apt update
zypper refresh
yum check-update
urpmi.update -a
aptitude update
Update the system to recent packages
apt-get/apt upgrade
zypper update
yum update
urpmi --auto-select
aptitude safe-upgrade
Searcing a package on the system




Search a package name
apt-cache search package_name
zypper search package_name
yum list package_name
urpmq package_name
Searcing a package using pattern
apt-cache search pattern
zypper search -t pattern pattern
yum search pattern
urpmq --fuzzy package_name
Searching package using file name
apt-file search path
zypper wp file
yum provides file
urpmf file
Listing the installed packages available
dpackage_name -l
zypper search -is
rpm -qa
rpm -qa
About Repository




Looking for the list of repositories
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
zypper repos
yum repolist
urpmq --list-media
Where to add new repository
(edit /etc/apt/sources.list)
zypper addrepo path name
(add repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/)
urpmi.addmedia name path
Removing unwanted repository
(edit /etc/apt/sources.list)
zypper removerepo name
(remove repo from /etc/yum.repos.d/)
urpmi.removemedia media

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