Install Guide

With our virtual servers we install apt when which makes installing software easy. Taken from Debian apt will automatically install dependancies, the programs which other programs rely on.

Searching

To find a program using apt you can do an apt-cache search < package name > . So for example to find apache you just run "apt-cache search apache". You will get some output similar to:

bash-2.05a$ apt-cache search apache
apache - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
apache-common - Support files for all Apache webservers
apache-dev - Apache webserver development kit
apache-doc - Apache webserver docs

Installing

To install software you can use apt-get install < package name >. So to install apache all you have to do is apt-get install apache. That it :)

Removing

To remove a package you can just do apt-get remove < package name >

RedHat RPM's

For rpms you can look at www.rpmfind.net

To install an rpm do rpm -ivh filename.rpm.

To list the installed rpms do rpm -qa.

To remove an installed rpm do rpm -e rpmname.

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