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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By : Philip Inshanally
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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By: Philip Inshanally

Overview of this book

The Linux+ certification provides a broad awareness of Linux operating systems, while giving professionals an upper hand in the IT industry. With this certification, you’ll be equipped with the all-important knowledge of installation, operation, administration, and troubleshooting services. This CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide will give you an overview of the system architecture. You’ll understand how to install and uninstall Linux distributions, followed by working with various package managers. You’ll then move on to manipulating files and processes at the command-line interface (CLI) and creating, monitoring, killing, restarting, and modifying processes. As you progress, you’ll be equipped to work with display managers and learn how you can create, modify, and remove user accounts and groups, as well as understand how to automate tasks. The last set of chapters will help you configure dates and set up local and remote system logging. In addition to this, you’ll explore different internet protocols, and delve into network configuration, security administration, Shell scripting, and SQL management. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have got to grips with all the modules you need to study for the LX0-103 and LX0-104 certification exams, but you’ll also be able to test your understanding with practice questions and mock exams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
19
Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on the various methods for package management. First, we delved into the traditional way of package management; that is, to use the dpkg utility. We looked at ways to view the current packages on the system. We also touched on querying for a particular package. Then we looked at the various locations in which a package would install files. Adding to that, we did an actual installation of a package. We then verified that the package was indeed installed. This was followed up by the removal of a package. Next, we switched our attention to a more common approach to package management; namely, APT. We used best practice, which is to always pass the update option with apt. We then focused on the method of searching for a package. Adding to this, we looked at the current packages. We also focused on getting some useful information on a particular...