Managing Software Using Containers
While package management systems have certainly made software installation in the Linux world much easier, they do have their drawbacks. To start out with, as you’ve already seen in this chapter, there are multiple competing package management systems. So for application developers to distribute an application that can be installed in all Linux distributions, they must create multiple versions to distribute.
But there’s even more complexity than that. Every application has some type of library functions that it depends on to run. When developers create a Linux application, they must take into consideration what library files are available in most Linux distributions, and not only that, but also what versions ...
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