Host packages

Packages reads the host's native package manager: apt, dnf, yum, zypper, pacman, or apk. It sits under Server configuration in the sidebar. The page shows the manager, installed count, package-index age, and update verdict, a band of what the installed software takes on disk, and four views: Installed, Updates, Add software, and Log.

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1. Open Server configuration → Packages and read the index age first. The update list is only as current as the host's cached package metadata. Use Refresh index where the page offers it, then revisit the update list. Refreshing changes nothing that is installed, so it asks for no confirmation.
2. Check notices for a reboot required or a package index more than a week old. Open Updates to review the waiting updates, grouped by the software they belong to with security updates first, then choose Install security updates or Upgrade all as an administrator.
3. Recheck the package state and reboot notice after the job completes. A package upgrade can finish while a running service still uses the old binary, and a reboot verdict may require host support to be known.

Security-only updates are offered only where the manager supplies advisory data. Alpine and Arch publish none, so the page says so and offers no security-only upgrade rather than silently upgrading everything. On pacman, Refresh index is not offered, because refreshing without upgrading can create an unsupported partial-upgrade state; an upgrade there refreshes and upgrades together.

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Installed filters with the chips Installed by hand, Everything, Dependencies, Security, and Behind; the by-hand and dependency chips appear only where the manager can tell them apart. Add software searches the repositories by name or description. Select a package to inspect its versions, size, dependencies, the commands it adds, its services, configuration paths, and manual pages. Installing a package does not usually start the service it provides. Open Processes → Services to check it. Log reads the package manager's own log.

Remove and, where available, Remove and purge have different effects: purge also deletes the package's configuration under /etc. Protected core packages, such as the package manager, the init system, libc and the base shell, the SSH server, Docker, sudo, and the kernel, cannot be removed from this page. Upgrade, install, and removal jobs require an administrator and show progress through the dashboard job console.