June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 27m
English
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Installing Additional Programs with a Package Manager
Your operating system has a bunch of programs already installed, but you’ll want to install more. You might be used to going to an “app store” or downloading some files from a website and installing them, but POSIX systems traditionally offer package managers to make downloading and installing software easy. Each operating system has its own package manager. Debian and Ubuntu use the apt package manager, while Fedora and CentOS use yum.
If you’re using Bash on Windows, you’ll use apt, as the Bash environment is based on Ubuntu.
If you’re on macOS, you don’t have a package manager installed. You should install Homebrew[6] by following the directions on its official homepage.
You’ll install ...