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 ...

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 ...

Linux has numerous package managers. There are command-line and GUI tools for the task. Not all package managers are created equal. When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called ...

the Lineox rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But if you prefer apt, the associated tools can be installed on most Linux distributions. In this chapter, you'll learn the fundamentals of apt, ...

Independent consultant and security contractor Max Justicz discovered a remote code execution issue in the APT high level package manager used by Debian, Ubuntu, and other related Linux distributions.

Jack Wallen shows you how to mark a package on an Ubuntu system such that it won’t upgrade when the apt-get upgrade command is issued. You probably have a lot of ...