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Software management systems overview

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Software management systems overview

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- [Instructor] The Linux software packaging system used to seem fairly foreign to users of self-contained commercial operating systems where software packages came in boxes or had to be individually downloaded from websites. However, the advent of the App Store on mobile devices where software is installed from remote servers via a software management application has made the Linux style software repository more familiar. The preferred method of installing software on Linux is to have a local software management application download software packages from a remote secure software repository. Software repositories contain software packages as well as an index of what they provide. These indexes and the packages themselves can be cryptographically signed. If the signature is incorrect, meaning it has been compromised, then the Linux package manager will reject it. Software from software repositories is easier to install,…

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