Installing Additional Programs with a Package Manager

Package manager

The operating system has a bunch of programs already installed, but we want to install more. We might be used to going to an app store or downloading some files from a website and installing them. Still, POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) systems traditionally offer package managers to make downloading and installing software easy. Each operating system has its own package manager. Debian and Ubuntu use the apt package manager, while Fedora and CentOS use yum.

If we’re using Bash on Windows, we use ...