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Installing Software Packages in Container

Linux The Virtuozzo Containers software can connect to your Linux distribution download packages repository to form a list of packages ready to be downloaded to your Hardware Node and installed in your Container. All these operations are available on the Install New Packages screen.

Note: A repository can be a place where multiple files are located for distribution over a network, or a repository can be a location that is directly accessible to the user without having to travel across a network. Therefore connecting to your repository might involve either going to the web site repository (e.g. Fedora Core or Red Hat), or to the repository, created on your Hardware Node. For information on creating a local repository, refer to the Setting Up Repository for EZ Templates section in the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Templates Management Guide.

On the Install New Packages screen you can obtain the following information on the packages:

Column Name

Description

Name

The name of the package.

Epoch

Indicates the version of a deb package or the version of an rpm package in case the version of the rpm package is not available.

Version

The version of an rpm package.

Arch

The processor architecture; if the column shows the "noarch" value, the packet is likely to be either non-executable or contain documentation.

The Available Packages table can display 10, 20, 40 or 80 packages, the default number is 20 and can be changed by clicking 10, 40, or 80 on top of the table. To see the next portion of packages, click either the number of the page next to the one you are having at the moment, or next (or last, to view the last page).

To install a package, select its checkbox (or the uppermost checkbox, to install all the packages shown in the table) and click Install.

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