Linux System and Package management Course

System and Package management Course Overview

Table of Contents

• Content
• Standards
• Aspects
  • 👶 Introduction
  • 💪 Workout
  • 🦑 Deep
  • ✨ New
  • 🔮 Obscura

Content

Below you can find the ordered content of the topic, in a linear progression

The linear progression of content aims to cover all content, course by course, workout by workout as follows:

• first course is the only core one, denoted by its manifest
• the next course is denoted by the first item of the next array in each course manifest
• each course has its order of workouts designated by the sections field in the same aforementioned manifest

1. basic-package-management

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	list-installed-packages	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	check-the-version-of-a-package-on-a-debian-based-system	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	installing-a-deb-package-from-the-terminal	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	install-specific-version-of-packages	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
5	broadcast-messages-across-the-system	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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2. disk-time-management

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	test-disk-speed	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
2	using-dd-to-create-disk-images	✅	🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
3	incorrect-time-on-dual-boot-systems	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
4	changing-the-timezone-on-deb-based-systems	✅	💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	force-a-time-update-with-ntp	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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3. system-monitoring-i

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	detect-your-linux-distribution	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
2	find-out-if-the-system-s-architecture-is-32-or-64-bit	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	system-uptime	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
4	commands-to-shutdown-or-restart-the-system	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	cancel-a-system-shutdown	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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4. system-monitoring-ii

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	get-hardware-stack-details-with-lspci	✅	💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	check-the-hdd-with-badblocks	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
3	list-currently-logged-in-users	✅	💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	finding-open-files-with-lsof	✅	💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	monitor-system-memory-using-vmstat	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

name	type	aspects	standards	done
gotta-know-them-all	fillTheGap	💪 workout	❌	❌

5. system-monitoring-iii

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	basic-service-management-with-systemd	✅	🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
2	preventing-a-user-from-logging-into-the-system	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	get-apt-to-use-a-mirror-faster-mirror	✅	🔮 obscura	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
4	keeping-repos-updated-with-cron	✅	🔮 obscura	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
5	common-log-files	✅	🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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6. utility-management

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	what-is-ppa	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	using-ppas	✅	👶 introduction 🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
3	removing-ppas	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	prevent-updating-a-specific-package-in-debian-systems	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
5	downgrade-a-package-via-apt-get	✅	💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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7. debian

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	using-tasksel-for-software-installation	✅	🔮 obscura	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
2	removing-old-kernels-in-debian-based-systems	✅	🔮 obscura 🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	fixing-locale-issues-in-debian-systems	✅	🔮 obscura	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	backporting-on-debian	✅	🔮 obscura 🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
5	solving-badsig-gpg-errors	✅	🔮 obscura	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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8. system-recipes

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	change-your-hostname-on-systems-using-systemd	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	executing-scripts-on-system-boot-using-systemd	✅	🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
3	changing-the-tmp-cleanup-frequency	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	revision-control-of-configuration-files-with-git	✅	💪 workout 🦑 deep	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
5	cpu-benchmark-with-dd	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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Standards

✅ - At least one insight covers this

❌ - Nothing covers this

🛠️ - This standard has no objectives yet

❌ Use external packages to add capabilities to your system

0. ❌ Use built-in package managers to check the packages on your system
1. ❌ Use built-in package managers to install new packages on your system
2. ❌ Use alternative package managers to install new packages on your system
3. ❌ Evaluate the risks of installing a package from an alternative package manager

❌ Identify your system’s hardware and properties

0. ❌ Use ioreg or /proc/device-tree to discover devices available to your system
1. ❌ Use lshw, lsusb, lspci, and lscpu to investigate hardware and devices

❌ Analyze the performance of your machine

0. ❌ Use ps to monitor the resource usage of processes
1. ❌ Use iostat to monitor the performance of storage devices
2. ❌ Use memstat to monitor the resource usage of processes
3. ❌ Determine the source of anomalous memory usage with ps
4. ❌ Determine the source of anomalous cpu usage ps
5. ❌ Determine the source of anomalous device usage with iostat

Aspects

Given the insights are tagged with aspects, we can filter over the linear content progression and create learning sub-paths.

These sub-path progressions will most likely not cover all content, but they will ensure and enforce an unified learning experience, tailor for the user wish.

For example, a user might be interested in new additions and updates of a language, rather than introduction lessions. Note that these sub-paths don't take games into consideration

👶 Introduction

If you are being introduced to the topic for the first time

Insights:

1. list-installed-packages
2. check-the-version-of-a-package-on-a-debian-based-system
3. installing-a-deb-package-from-the-terminal
4. install-specific-version-of-packages
5. detect-your-linux-distribution
6. find-out-if-the-system-s-architecture-is-32-or-64-bit
7. system-uptime
8. commands-to-shutdown-or-restart-the-system
9. cancel-a-system-shutdown
10. what-is-ppa
11. using-ppas

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management. :warning: There are no games tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management.

💪 Workout

Theory put into practice/that’s how you achieve X points

Insights:

1. list-installed-packages
2. check-the-version-of-a-package-on-a-debian-based-system
3. installing-a-deb-package-from-the-terminal
4. install-specific-version-of-packages
5. broadcast-messages-across-the-system
6. test-disk-speed
7. incorrect-time-on-dual-boot-systems
8. changing-the-timezone-on-deb-based-systems
9. force-a-time-update-with-ntp
10. detect-your-linux-distribution
11. find-out-if-the-system-s-architecture-is-32-or-64-bit
12. system-uptime
13. commands-to-shutdown-or-restart-the-system
14. cancel-a-system-shutdown
15. get-hardware-stack-details-with-lspci
16. check-the-hdd-with-badblocks
17. list-currently-logged-in-users
18. finding-open-files-with-lsof
19. monitor-system-memory-using-vmstat
20. prevent-updating-a-specific-package-in-debian-systems
21. downgrade-a-package-via-apt-get
22. revision-control-of-configuration-files-with-git
23. cpu-benchmark-with-dd

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management. Games:

1. gotta-know-them-all

🦑 Deep

Prerequisite knowledge consisting of 2 or more 👶/💪 workouts

Insights:

1. using-dd-to-create-disk-images
2. basic-service-management-with-systemd
3. preventing-a-user-from-logging-into-the-system
4. common-log-files
5. using-ppas
6. removing-ppas
7. removing-old-kernels-in-debian-based-systems
8. backporting-on-debian
9. change-your-hostname-on-systems-using-systemd
10. executing-scripts-on-system-boot-using-systemd
11. changing-the-tmp-cleanup-frequency
12. revision-control-of-configuration-files-with-git
13. cpu-benchmark-with-dd

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management. :warning: There are no games tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management.

✨ New

Recently added/gained traction feature

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🔮 Obscura

Stories, obscure details that don’t specifically relate to a learning objective

Insights:

1. get-apt-to-use-a-mirror-faster-mirror
2. keeping-repos-updated-with-cron
3. using-tasksel-for-software-installation
4. removing-old-kernels-in-debian-based-systems
5. fixing-locale-issues-in-debian-systems
6. backporting-on-debian
7. solving-badsig-gpg-errors

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management. :warning: There are no games tagged with this aspect in system-and-package-management.

✅ All content has been tagged with aspects.