All modern Unix operating systems provide softwares as packages. I remember the good old times in the ’90s when you had to compile all the applications from their source code. Compiling source code has advantages: you enable only the features you need and perform configuration tweaks as you want. But
Tag: debian
Debian apt-get upgrade exception
Quick tip to help you to manage packages on a Debian distribution: How to perform an upgrade (apt-get upgrade) without upgrading one or more critical packages? I’m running a Debian server with a Groundwork monitoring tool. Groundwork requires specific MySQL packages that cannot be upgraded. # cat <<END | dpkg