In Windows 10, Microsoft has finally baked a package manager called OneGet into Windows. It works similarly to apt-get and other package managers that have been around for decades in the Linux world; just works in PowerShell, rather than bash. So let’s take a quick peak. First, import it as a module from a PowerShell prompt: Import-Module -Name OneGet Next, use Get-Command to see the options for the OneGet Module: Get-Command -Module OneGet This will show you the following options: Find-Package Get-Package Get-PackageProvider Get-PackageSource Install-Package Register-PackageSource Save-Package Set-PackageSource Uninstall-Package Unregister-PackageSource Next, look at the repositories of package sources you have: Get-PackageSource You can then add a repo to look at,…
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Yosemite Server And Logs
OS X Yosemite running the Server app has a lot of scripts used for enabling services, setting states, changing hostnames and the like. Once upon a time there was a script for OS X Server called server setup. It was a beautiful but too simplistic kind of script. Today, much of that logic has been moved out into more granular scripts, kept in /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/ServerSetup, used by the server to perform all kinds of tasks. These scripts are, like a lot of other things in Yosemite Server. Some of these include the configuration of amavisd, docecot and alerts. These scripts can also be used for migrating services and data. Sometimes the…