[clug] Intel Active Management Technology

[Scott Ferguson]

On 16/05/17 01:30, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux wrote:
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> 
>> Note that Ubuntu uses the Debian package management system.
> 
> I had previously used "Ubuntu Software" to install packages.

That is a GUI for the Debian package management system (aptitude, dpkg,
.deb packages etc).

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>> You can then use apt-file to search for files that are part of a
>> package...

Online man pages:-
https://manpages.debian.org/ (very fast)
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ (no so quick)

> 
> I don't understand "apt", needing to absorb an explanatory introduction
> on its use.

There is no package called "apt", rather there are a number of packages
with "apt" in their name. They all have man pages that document their
use - those man packages are installed onto your system at the same time.

See for yourself:-
apt-cache --names-only search ^apt | more

> 
>> If the instructions say:- "make, config, make install", install your
>> "build essential" (gcc, kernel source, kernel headers),
>> "make" the software, configure the software, then use "checkinstall" to
>> build a basic debian package, then install the debian package (see the
>> quoted references or this mailing list for hints).
> 
> I had avoided software requiring this! 

It's rare that you'd need to do so - but occasionally you may want to
install something from source code because it/or that version, is not
available in your distributions repository as a pre-compiled debian package.

So I have some reading to do.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
(you can ignore the step "sudo apt-get install cvs subversion git-core
mercurial")

> 
>> make, config, make install is for "any" Linux distribution.
>> make, config, checkinstall is the variation to be used for any
>> distribution based on Debian.
> 
> I would appreciate a talk on such lore!

If you need to hear and watch:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQ4QBegur8

If you prefer written instruction:-
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
https://www.ostechnix.com/build-packages-source-using-checkinstall/


Kind regards


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