Installing Essential Packages on Linux

wget: GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS, the most widely used Internet protocols.

curl: curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. curl is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones.

screen: Screen or GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer. In other words, it means that you can start a screen session and then open any number of windows.

unzip: unzip is a utility that helps you list, test, and extract compressed ZIP archives. To create a ZIP archive on a Linux system, you'll need to use the zip command .

unar: extract archive file contents.

git: Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

nano: GNU nano is an easy to use command line text editor for Unix and Linux operating systems. It includes all the basic functionality you'd expect from a regular text editor, like syntax highlighting, multiple buffers, search and replace with regular expression support, spellchecking, UTF-8 encoding, and more.

 

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