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I'm running through an AngularJS tutorial, and in the get started section it says:
In Debian based distributions, there is a name clash with another
utility called node. The suggested solution is to also install the
nodejs-legacy apt package, which renames node to nodejs.
apt-get install nodejs-legacy npm
nodejs --version
npm --version
I don't understand what a Debian based distribution means, even after going to https://packages.debian.org/sid/nodejs-legacy
As a side note, I've used Angular and Node before in other tutorials, so I am not sure if I should follow this get-started part. I'm sort of going with it now because I installed nvm without intending to or understanding what it is for.
Loosely if the Linux distribution is using dpkg and using the apt package manager you could consider it a Debian Based distribution ie Debian/Ubuntu. There are quite a few, you can see a list here...
https://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
Wikipedia has a good page with more details on Linux distributions. The Debian list can be found here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Debian-based
It's worth clicking on the image to see just how many distributions Debian has spawned.
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Is there apt-get install analog command in Buildroot? I want to install some applicatin but how?
From documentation of BuildRoot:
Buildroot is not meant to be a distribution
(or rather, a distribution generator.) It is the opinion of most
Buildroot developers that this is not a goal we should pursue.
We prefer to push Buildroot in a direction that makes it easy
(or even easier) to generate complete root filesystems. This is what
makes Buildroot stands out in the crowd (among other things, of
course!) We believe that for most embedded Linux systems, binary
packages are not necessary, and potentially harmful.
So, It seems No! you can not do that by using apt. you need to directly add your packages based on documentation
By default in LINUX/UBUNTU Operating system is having apt-get installed so you can directly start using sudo apt-get install [Package Name that you want to install]
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I've received a linux-yocto box. I now I'm trying to installing some software, on ubuntu I use apt-get but it seems not to work/installe. so I've tried yum same result.
so my question is, is there a way to find out which package manager is install on my linux system ?
thanks in advance !
Yocto is using either rpm, dpkg, or opkg as the package manager. If the tools are installed on the image, which isn't a requirement, then the binaries are either dnf (or yum if it is a really old release), apt-get, or opkg respectively.
There's a reasonable chance that you've been given an image without a package manager or a working feed though. The joy of Yocto is that it is so flexible, so you should ask whoever gave you the software.
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As I wanted to learn Linux better, after using Fedora for a while I installed Arch Linux. Install was ok and working fine. But while I was installing KDE desktop environment, I didn't choose default(all) option, rather I choose randomnly a number for every step. KDE got installed and working. However I didn't used KDE before. I'm suspecting everything didn't installed. Did I made mistake choosing a random option instead choosing default? Can I install those packages for KDE?
It's recommended to choose "all" from the group plasma under Pacman to have a full working desktop environment.
But, not choosing "all" is not a mistake at all.
You can at any time install the package you want one by one with:
pacman -S nameOfPackage
or install all non-installed packages from plasma with:
pacman -S plasma
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I know that apt-get is meant to be a packaging manager for Debian. But I'd like to learn if this software can be also ported to different operating systems, especially to Slackware.
I am the author of Slax, a Slackware-based operating system, so I know lots of the internals of a working OS, library dependencies, and so on. From my point of view, installing a debian package to Slackware or other distribution is fairly possible if both the distros share similar libraries, which most Linuxes do nowadays. Slackware, despite it's focus on stability, is usually using recent libraries as like Debian.
As far as I understand apt, it's just an application which tracks dependencies and has a list of mirrors from which to download packages. Unpacking the deb packages is a matter of
ar -x
Most init scripts will be the same if the Sys-V init style is supported. Some of the Debian packages may not work out of the box, especially those which are deeply system-related, like udev for example, but majority of the APPLICATIONS should install and work OK on Slackware in my opinion. I tried Google's official Chrome Browser package for Debian and it works just fine on Slackware.
Are there any drawbacks in porting apt-get to Slackware or other Linux? Did anybody attempt to port it already? Thank you
The package slapt-get is the Slackware implementations of apt-get.
slapt-get install whatever-package
Any way you should be able to compile it on any OS. Of course you might have to do some small changes to the source if the repos structure and files to download are very different.
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I am about to install postfix/Dovecot in Redhat Linux server. After checking this link http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/postfix.html, I knew that I had to install berkley database too.
But after checking softwares installed on the server, I found another DB SW installed.
Can I depend on another kind of databases other than the one required in the above link?
You don't mention the version of Red Hat, but I assume you use a version which is not so terribly old it does not have yum.
With
yum deplist postfix
you can list all the dependencies which postfix has in the RPM package. On my Fedora system, libdb is listed as a dependency, which is the Berkeley DB library and is sufficient for postfix.
When you install RPM's with yum, the dependencies are automatically resolved and everything which is required will be installed. Trust yum.