In Windows, installing software is a matter of clicks. In Linux, however, there are quite a few ways to skin the cat. Depending on the distribution you have, software can be downloaded in the form of ...

If you’ve ever used a modern Linux distribution, you’ve likely experienced the convenience of installing and updating software with a single command. Package managers, the tools behind this ease of ...

I just compiled the php5 ubuntu package. It built like 10 deb files. I tried to install what looks like the main one, php5_5.0.5-2ubuntu1.2_all.deb, via 'dpkg -i', but it complained about a dependency ...

For a long time, Linux received a bad rap for not just being difficult to use, but for not having the software necessary to be productive. Those concerns were reasonable during the early days of Linux ...