From the course: Learning CentOS Linux
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Installing packages from other sources
From the course: Learning CentOS Linux
Installing packages from other sources
- While the Cintas Repositories have a lot of software available, you may want to install something that's not included in them. There's two general approaches to adding packages that aren't part of the regular Distr Repositories. You can work with RPM packages manually at the command line. And you can add third party repositories to be able to work with packages directly in Yum. Let's take a quick look at both. Nmap is a program that can scan a network. It's actually available in the regular repositories. But we can also visit the webpage for Nmap and download a package file from there. This can be useful if you're wanting to keep a specific version of software around to install on new systems. Or if you need to do offline installation in order to prepare systems before they join your network. Let's take a look at the link to the relevant RPM here. I'll find the download section. And scroll down. In order to get the RPM onto my server, I'll need to copy the URL and then download it…
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The Linux file system and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard4m 13s
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Configuring the network for a CentOS server2m 51s
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Configuring the network manually6m 45s
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Configuring the network with NetworkManager4m 45s
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Setting the hostname2m 32s
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Connecting to the system remotely with Secure Shell (SSH)4m 6s
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Adding an administrative user with SSH access3m 41s
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Adding a key to a user for SSH access4m 24s
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Transferring files to and from the server5m 1s
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File permissions2m 12s
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Working with users and groups3m 52s
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Installing and updating software8m 5s
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Installing packages by group1m 34s
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Installing packages from other sources4m
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