12. Install, Upgrade at Speed of Light With apt-get (Redhat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Others)

You can automate the process of maintaining the Linux system with the powerful tool like apt-get. The apt-get tool is immensely powerful and used by millions of computers world-wide on Linux systems. The apt-get utility works with Redhat Linux and Debian. The apt-get works with distros which support RPM or Deb packages. The apt-get may work with most of the distributions; if it does not you can very easily tailor the code. Mandrake has tool called urpmi.


			man apt-get
			apt-get -f  upgrade postgresql-contrib
			apt-get  upgrade postgresql-contrib
			apt-get  install postgresql-contrib
			apt-get  install gaim
			apt-get dist-upgrade