In this article, I will take you through 2 different ways that can be used to list all manually installed packages in Ubuntu/Debian. Many times you might want to know about all the packages which are automatically installed due to some dependency requirements from another package and also about the packages which you have manually ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to prevent a specific package from update in Linux. Many times you might have noticed that whenever you run update in your Linux system then it will sync all the installed packages with the latest available stable version from the Repo. While most of the time this is ... Read more

In this article, we will go through 10 apt-mark command examples for package administration in Linux. apt-mark can be used as a unified front-end to set various settings for a package, such as marking a package as being automatically/manually installed or changing dpkg selections such as hold, install, deinstall and purge which are respected e.g. ... Read more

In this article, I will go through the Steps to install aptitude command on Ubuntu/Debian based systems with example. If you are a Linux professional, then you might be aware of package manager which is required to perform operations like install, update and removal of packages. If you are using RHEL/Fedora/CentOS based systems then you ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through 21+ aptitude command examples for package management in Linux. aptitude is an open source high-level text-based interface to the Debian/Ubuntu based Linux systems. It allows user to view the list of packages and to perform package management tasks such as installing, upgrading, and removing packages. Actions may ... Read more

In this article, I will go through 21+ Practical dpkg command examples which will be helpful for Linux Beginners. If you are a Linux professional then I am sure you must have used some kind of package manager to manage your Linux packages. It could either be yum or dnf if you are using RHEL/CentOS ... Read more

In this article, we will look to solve Package "package_name" has no installation candidate error on Debian based servers. Last night when I was trying to install Openssh Server packages in my freshly built Debian 11 server, then I noticed "package 'openssh-server' has no installation candidate" error which was stopping me to install any new ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through the steps to add a package repository to Debian 11. If you are looking to download and install packages from Debian repository then all you need to do is to add the right repository sources in your Debian Server. Then you can use any package manager like ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through the steps to install OpenSSH Server on Debian 11. You might have faced a situation where you have a freshly installed Debian 11 System and when you were trying to remotely connect your Server using SSH port then it is getting timed out and you are unable ... Read more

In this article, we will look into the steps to Install Jsonnet on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. You might be hearing 'Jsonnet' word a lot and thinking if it's a utility, language or a file type ? Well, its actually all of them. You can get Jsonnet open source utility and generate your JSON files by ... Read more