Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Quick Reference Card to install a package via a cli package manager in Linux

This is just a short reference card (mostly for my own use) showing the different  command line commands to install a package for a particular disto.

Debian: su && apt-get install whatever_package
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install whatever_package
PCLinuxOs: apt-get install whatever_package
Mint: sudo aptitude -y install whatever_package
Fedora: yum install whatever_package
Red Hat: yum install whatever_package
Mandriva: urpmi whatever_package
Mandrake: urpmi whatever_package
SUSE: yast -i whatever_package
Gentoo: emerge whatever_package
Sabayon (binary): equo install whatever_package
Sabayon (source): emerge install whatever_package
Foresight: sudo conary update whatever_package
Arch Linux: pacman -S whatever_package
Frugalware: pacman -S whatever_package
OpenBSD: pkg_add whatever_package

If you can contribute a command based on your distro that I can add to this list, I would appreciate an email.
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