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Mastering Ubuntu Server

You're reading from   Mastering Ubuntu Server Master the art of deploying, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Ubuntu Server 18.04

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788997560
Length 552 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jay LaCroix Jay LaCroix
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Preface 1. Deploying Ubuntu Server 2. Managing Users FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Storage Volumes 4. Connecting to Networks 5. Managing Software Packages 6. Controlling and Monitoring Processes 7. Setting Up Network Services 8. Sharing and Transferring Files 9. Managing Databases 10. Serving Web Content 11. Learning Advanced Shell Techniques 12. Virtualization 13. Running Containers 14. Automating Server Configuration with Ansible 15. Securing Your Server 16. Troubleshooting Ubuntu Servers 17. Preventing and Recovering from Disasters 18. Using the Alternate Installer 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Searching for packages

Unfortunately, the naming conventions used for packages in Ubuntu Server aren't always obvious. Worse, package names are often very different from one distribution to another for even the same piece of software. While this book and other tutorials online will outline the exact steps needed to install software, if you're ever on your own, it really doesn't help much if you don't know the name of the package you want to install. In this section, I'll try to take some of the mystery out of searching for packages.

In the previous section, we went over searching for Snap packages already, so I won't repeat that here. The APT suite of utilities also has a means of searching for packages as well, which is the apt search command. We can use the following command to search for packages, by providing a keyword:

apt search <search...
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