CS615 System Administration, Week 04, Segment 3 - Package Management
Channel: cs615asa
Date: 2021-02-24

In this video, we continue our discussion of the difference between the operating system and so-called "add-on software".  We conclude that in order to install and maintain all such software, we want to use a package manager, and illustrate common features by example of the 'dpkg', 'rpm', and NetBSD's pkgsrc tools.

Slides for this lecture: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/04-package-management.pdf
Course Website: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/

Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:05 System Software vs. Add-on Software
07:13 Software Types
10:43 Listing packages and files using dpkg(1)
13:00 Verifying package integrity using rpm(1)
16:26 Checking for vulnerabilities using pkgsrc
21:23 Summary
23:15 Exercises