Seminar on Linux Package Management System, Fri 9 Nov 11:00

[Eleonora Viti]

Friday, 9 November 2007 at 11:00
Seminar Room Main Building

The Scientific Computer Section invites all interested to attend the 
following seminar:

SPECIAL TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR HIGH PERFOMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEM

Linux Package management system

Omondi, P.A

Abstract

Linux Package management system in this context refers to a collection 
of tools to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, 
and removing software packages from a computer. The term is most 
commonly used with regards to Unix-like systems, particularly Linux, and 
these systems may rely heavily on it, with a typical Linux distribution 
including thousands of discrete packages. In such a system, software is 
distributed in packages, usually encapsulated into a single file. 
Together with the software itself, packages often include other 
important information, such as the full name, a description of its 
purpose, the version number, vendor of the software, checksum 
information, and a list of other packages, known as dependencies, that 
are required for the software to run properly. This presentation is 
intended to give Linux some practices that if adopted would result into 
efficient usage the package.