12. Software Installation and Management

12. Software Installation and Management
12.1 Installing Linux and OpeSolaris
Netbooting PCs
Setting up PXE for Linux
Netbooting non-PCs
Using Kickstart: the automated installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Setting up a Kickstart configuration file
Building a Kickstart server
Pointing Kickstart at your config file
Using AutoYaST: SUSE's automated installation tool
Automating installation with the Ubuntu installer
12.2 Installing Solaris
12.3 Installing HP-UX
12.4 Installing AIX with The Network Installation Manager
12.5 Managing Packages
12.6 Managing Linux Packages
rpt: manage RPM packages
dpkg: manage .deb packages in Ubuntu
12.7 Using High-Level Linux Package Management Systems
Package repositories
RHN: the Red Hat Network
APT: the Advanced Package Tool
apt-get configuration
An example /etc/apt/sources.list file
Creation of a local repository mirror
apt-get automation
yum: release management for RPM
Zypper package management for SUSE: now with more ZYpp!
12.8 Managing Packages for Unix
12.9 Revision Control
Backup file creation
Formal revision control systems
Subversion
Git
12.10 Software Localization And Configuration
Organizing your localization
Testing
Compiling locally
Distributing localizations
12.11 Using Configuration Management Tools
cfengine: computer immune system
LCFG: a large-scale configuration system
Template Tree 2: cfengine helper
DMTF/CIM: the Common Information Model
12.12 Sharing Software over NFS
Package namespaces
Dependency management
Wrapper scripts
12.13 Recommended Reading
12.14 Exercises