Add new tutorial on managing software #57
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s-makin
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| Your system software (and other deb packages) are handled through the | ||
| [Advanced Packaging Tool](https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/package-management#advanced-packaging-tool) | ||
| (APT). APT is a package *repository*; it contains both the **database** of the | ||
| packages available in Ubuntu, and it contains the **packages** themselves. |
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You could make a comparison to pip here? Suggesting because that's a lot of people's first exposure to package management.
Or maybe you could be more clear and describe APT to those who have exposure to other package managers. I don't think the database part of your description makes it very clear what you're trying to emphasize. With apt, you can actually install full applications, whereas some package managers (such as pip) can only be used to install the packages, so apt is more powerful.
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I'm not sure that pip use is extensive/widespread enough to make the comparison meaningful (especially because APT is the default in Ubuntu), but I can/should probably make the package management aspect more explicit. I'll have a fiddle and see what improvements I can make.
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| Configuration is an important step, because this is where the Makefiles are | ||
| created that will allow us to install the package. It will take a few moments | ||
| as it checks all the files. |
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The user is thrown into make/Makefiles here too. Can you provide context?
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| * We know that our changes to conffiles are always safely preserved, while | ||
| changes to non-conffiles are reverted at the next upgrade or security fix. | ||
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| * Importantly, we know how to verify checksums with ``md5sum`` or similar |
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You did not mention the build from source here, which is good - I do not want it here :-)
But this list also forgets about the install from a .deb file - which ok'ish.
I'm unsure if that should be here or also in a page of its own with big disclaimers (essentially the third party explanation we have).
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I don't want to draw too much attention to it, since we prefer people don't do it and are only showing it as an FYI because we're doing it in a sandbox. Actually, now that I reflect more on the reasons to remove all the building from source stuff, I wonder if we should also remove the install from .deb stuff - but it does provide a convenient segue into snaps.
This tutorial, aimed at newer Ubuntu users, should provide a comprehensive walkthrough of
managing software, which explains many of the terms and concepts they need to know
to use the rest of the content of the server docs and help them be successful.
Note: I'm having issues with Multipass currently, so the later part of the tutorial I
haven't been able to properly test to ensure that it works on a fresh VM