Introduction

Advanced Package Tool (APT) is a free software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on various Linux distributions. APT offers a centralized interface for software management and a better experience than having to download and install software one by one. Tencent Cloud hosts APT sources so you can install software without adding sources.

Prerequisites

Log in to a Linux CVM instance that runs Ubuntu.

Directions

In the following, Nginx is used as an example.

Listing available software

Run the following command to list available software:

sudo apt-cache search all

Installing software

Run the following command to install Nginx:

sudo apt-get install nginx

Make sure this is the software you want to install and enter Y to approve the installation. Wait until the software installation is complete, as shown in the figure below:

Querying installed software

You can run different commands to query installed software.

• Run the following command to query the directory of the software package and all the files in the software package.

  sudo dpkg -L software_name 

• Run the following command to query the version information of the software package.

  sudo dpkg -l software_name 

View information on the installed Nginx, as shown in the figure below: