APT For Debian based distributions, like, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc. The APT is the tool, commonly used to install packages, remotely from the software repository. In short it's a simple command based tool that you use to install files/softwares. How to download and install prebuilt OpenJDK packages JDK 8 Debian, Ubuntu, etc. On the command line, type: $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre. The openjdk-8-jre.

In any operating system we need to install applications to complete our day to day tasks. In the world of Windows, every program has a simple Setup.exe or a program.zip file. On a Mac a package is a program.dmg or a program.sit file. In both the operating system you can simply click it and it will ask you some very basic configuration questions like, do you accept the licence agreement or the directory you want to install the software to. Although in Linux, It seems tough to install the programs/softwares but It's not true. The parameters are x to extract files, z to filter through gzip for decompression (leave this off if the file does not have a gz extension), v for verbose mode so you can tell what’s going on, f indicating there will be a filename to follow.

You may want to create an alias called “untar” that feeds in these options if you have a hard time remembering command line options as I do. The command will not install the software, but it will extract the archived files. After extracting files then you can install the extracted files by reading README file or INSTALL file (because there you can instructions for installing those particular files).

Afcourse there are many distributions, so the packaging managing tools. Like, SUSE uses RPM as its native package format, but has its own tool to manage softwares on system. Yast is the packaging managing tool used in openSUSE Linux distribution, as well as SUSE's derived commercial distributions. I'll cover Yast in my other post.

I will cover some more majorly used packaging management tools like, 'dpkg' in my other post. The work and attributes of some other packaging management tools will be discussed in that post. Also Read important article. Jrc Radar 1000 Mk2 Manual Treadmill.