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Package Management in Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

There are many different ways to install packages in Linux.

  1. Build from source.

  2. Pre-built binaries.

  3. Use distribution specific tools. For example,

    Notice that Atomic Linux distributions …

Maning Packages Using Yum in CentOS

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

yum update

yum search vim

yum install yum-utils

yum install pkg

yum localinstall pkg

yum groupinstall development

yum install https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm

yum info unixODBC 

rpm -ivh pkg …

General Tips for Gradle

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Install & Upgrade Gradle

The latest version of gradle can be installed via PPA on Ubuntu.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwchien/gradle
sudo apt-get update

And gradle can be upgraded using the following …

Fix Package Installation Issue in Linux

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Error message: The package hl1440lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

Steps to fix the issue:

Start with

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all hl1440lpr

If that …