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Linux Basics for Hackers
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Linux Basics for Hackers

by OccupyTheWeb .
December 2018
Beginner
248 pages
5h 54m
English
No Starch Press
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4ADDING AND REMOVING SOFTWARE

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One of the most fundamental tasks in Linux—or any operating system—is adding and removing software. You’ll often need to install software that didn’t come with your distribution or remove unwanted software so it doesn’t take up hard drive space.

Some software requires other software to run, and you’ll sometimes find that you can download everything you need at once in a software package, which is a group of files—typically libraries and other dependencies—that you need for a piece of software to run successfully. When you install a package, all the files within it are installed together, along with a script to make ...

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