Software installation

Depending on which distribution you’ve chosen and the type of installation you’ve decided on, your system may lack software that’s essential for your everyday work. It may also be that you one day require a piece of software that isn’t installed by default.

Linux distributions pioneered something that other operating systems mirrored later on. The common way of installing software on the Linux operating system is by running an appropriate command that will fetch a binary, put it properly on the system, add some configuration if required, and make it available to users. Today, this may not sound revolutionary at all. After all, we’re living in a world of Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Apps. But back in the day when Windows and macOS users had to navigate the internet to find a suitable installer for their software, Linux users could install most of it with a single command.

This is important in the automated...