Package Management for Newbies: Apt, RPM and Yum

Below are links where you can learn about the complete functioning of the apt package manager, used in debian, ubuntu, mint, pclinuxos, etc and where you can learn about the complete functioning of the rpm/yum package manager, used in redhat, fedora, mandriva, and other redhat family distros.


Apt:
*www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lpic1-v3-102-4/index.html


RPM/Yum:
*www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lpic1-v3-102-5/index.html


They are seriously helpful even for non-newbies and intermediate users because of the details they cover. You can go to the pages and download the PDFs for archival.


Here is the IBM developer works linux library page:
*www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/library.jsp

Over there you can find several more articles, tutorials, howtos, etc.
 
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