Though we concentrate on installation for CentOS (Linux), the software needed can be installed on other Linux distributions, MacOS, and Windows.\u00a0 However, I have no experience with this software on Windows, so you are a bit on your own if you use Windows.<\/p>\n
CentOS<\/a> is a standard Linux distribution used in the Department of Computer Science.\u00a0 To install on a PC, workstation, or laptop, you will likely need to download the ISO image<\/a>\u00a0and burn it on a DVD.\u00a0 Installation instructions are here.<\/a><\/p>\n Be sure to remember your root password and to create a user account for you to use.<\/p>\n Once installed, CentOS has numerous additional packages that can be installed over the Internet.\u00a0 CentOS uses the YUM package manager<\/a> for this purpose and also to keep installed packages current.\u00a0 You run yum from the command line as root.\u00a0 You can try<\/p>\n to keep your packages updated.\u00a0 The command<\/p>\n will tell you what packages are currently installed, while the command<\/p>\n will tell you what packages are available but not installed.\u00a0 The command<\/p>\n will install package_name.<\/p>\n The many other Linux distributions have their own installation procedures.\u00a0 These are typically easy to find and follow online.\u00a0 They each have their own package management system, similar to yum.<\/p>\n MacOS and Windows are typically already installed on your platform.\u00a0 It is a good idea to keep your installation updated with the newest versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Though we concentrate on installation for CentOS (Linux), the software needed can be installed on other Linux distributions, MacOS, and Windows.\u00a0 However, I have no experience with this software on Windows, so you are a bit on your own if you use Windows. CENTOS CentOS is a standard Linux distribution used in the Department of … Continue reading Operating Systems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs5045\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ssh -l root localhost\r\nyum update<\/pre>\n
yum list installed<\/pre>\n
yum list available<\/pre>\n
yum install package_name<\/pre>\n
OTHER LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS<\/h6>\n
MACOS and windows<\/h6>\n