Chapter 2. Managing Software

THE FOLLOWING LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

  • 1.102.3 Manage shared libraries (weight: 1)

  • 1.102.4 Use Debian package management (weight: 3)

  • 1.102.5 Use RPM and Yum package management (weight: 3)

  • 1.103.5 Create, monitor, and kill processes (weight: 4)

  • 1.103.6 Modify process execution priorities (weight: 2)

Managing Software

This chapter also covers libraries—software components that can be used by many different programs. Libraries help reduce the disk space and memory requirements of complex programs, but they also require some attention; if that attention isn't given to them, they can cause problems by ...

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