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Linux Administration Cookbook

By : Adam K. Dean
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Linux Administration Cookbook

By: Adam K. Dean

Overview of this book

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you’ll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Using Pip, RubyGems, and other package managers

Aside from YUM, Apt, snaps, and Flatpak, there are a host of other package management systems. Pip and RubyGems are programming-language related methods of distributing packages to systems; there are more than these two, but they're by far the most popular right now.

Pip installs packages (Pip) is included by default in recent Python installations. Gem is just a play on the fact that it is for packaging Ruby elements; it, too, is included in recent Ruby installations.

We're going to touch on installing software using these package managers.

Getting ready

In this section, we will continue to use our Ubuntu VM.

Install Pip and RubyGems on your Ubuntu machine (Python will...