Linux Up Skill - Day 4

I’m going to play a little bit of catch up this afternoon and move on to lesson four of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson covers installing software and exploring the file structure. The tasks for this lesson include:

• Install a new application from the online repositories
• Become familiar with some of the standard directories
• Look at and format and content of some configuration files

The lesson starts with a search for Midnight Commander, apt search "midnight commander" which gives me the following results:

Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done avfs/focal 1.1.1-1 amd64 virtual filesystem to access archives, disk images, remote locations junior-system/focal 1.29ubuntu1 all Debian Jr. System tools krusader/focal 2:2.7.2-1build1 amd64 twin-panel (commander-style) file manager mc/focal 3:4.8.24-2ubuntu1 amd64 Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager mc-data/focal 3:4.8.24-2ubuntu1 all Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager -- data files moc/focal 1:2.6.0~svn-r2994-3build1 amd64 ncurses based console audio player pilot/focal 2.22+dfsg1-1 amd64 Simple file browser from Alpine, a text-based email client

Then they have us install the application with sudo apt install mc which asks me to confirm and then installs the package. Then we run midnight commander with mc. The lesson the has me look for the following directories /root /home /sbin /etc and /var/log. Then it has me open and look at some files.

The lesson then has me search again with apt search hangman, then has me run sudo apt install bsdgames to install hangman.

A pretty quick and straight forward lesson.