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How To List Available Updates and Updateable Packages with Apt, Apt-Get, Aptitude Commands?

How To List Available Updates and Updateable Packages with Apt, Apt-Get, Aptitude Commands?

apt and apt-get provides online package update for the deb based distributions. We can list currently available updates of the current system with these apt and apt-get commands in different ways. We can list updateable or upgradeable packages for Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali etc. Update Repository/Packages Information In order to list available … Read more

Apt Command “Hash Sum mismatch” Error and Solution On Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali

Apt Command "Hash Sum mismatch" Error and Solution On Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali

apt command is used to install, update, remove packages in Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali. apt is mainly used with the deb packages.  With the apt update or apt-get update command the repository information is downloaded to from the deb repositories to the local repositories. Hash is used to checking if the downloaded … Read more

How To List Installed Packages In Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Mint

Ubuntu, Debian, Kali and Mint distributions uses apt-get and dpkg commands for package management. We generally use this commands to install or remove packages from Linux systems. But in some cases we may need to list and count installed packages. In this tutorial we will look how to list and count all ready installed packages in Ubuntu, … Read more

Linux “Apt-Get Command Not Found” Error Solution

Linux distributions are using package managers in order to install, update and remove applications. In the old days there are very less package managers those are not so good. In to day they are very talented. apt-get command not found is command error type which is shown while installing, updating and removing applications. In this … Read more

How To Solve “add-apt-repository command not found” Error In Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali

deb or apt based distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and Kali uses apt package management system. These distributions provide a lot of packages by default. But in some cases, we may need to add extra or third party packages into our system. This is done with add-apt-repository. This is not installed by default in these distributions. So we … Read more

What Does “sudo apt-get update” do?

What Does "sudo apt-get update" do?

We have examined the apt-get  and its commands in a detailed manner previously. apt-get  is used to manage installed packages in a Linux distribution like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, etc. Here we will look simply sudo apt-get update  and related commands to update a deb based Linux distribution. For detailed tutorials look following. How To … Read more

How To Apt-Get Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade, Full-Upgrade, and Their Similarities and Differences?

How To Apt-Get Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade, Full-Upgrade, and Their Similarities and Differences?

deb based distributions provide apt or apt-get to manage packages interactively and from network repositories. While updating packages update, upgrade or dist-upgrade can be used. But what is the difference between these two commands. In this tutorial, we will look at this issue. Apt-Get/Apt Update updatecommand will simply get the packages information from repositories. These … Read more

How To Update and Upgrade Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Kali?

How To Update and Upgrade Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Kali?

Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, and Mint use the same package management software named dpkg and apt. Updating OS is an important part of the system administration. We will look at how to update and upgrade deb based distributions. Update Package Index The first step to updating packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, and Mint is updating the … Read more

How To Remove Packages From Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali with Apt-Get Uninstall Command with Examples

How To Remove Packages From Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali with Apt-Get Uninstall Command with Examples

apt-get is a standard package manager provided by popular distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Kali. We can use apt-get remove and purge in order to remove packages from the system. apt-get This package manager provides a lot of options in order to manage packages precisely. We have already examined very complete tutorial about apt-get … Read more

How To Solve ” sub process usr bin dpkg returned an error code 1″ Error?

dpkg is a tool used to install packages into a Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali or deb based distribution. Generally package managers works without problem. But in some situations there may be some errors about package installation. One of the most popular dpkg error is sub process usr bin dpkg returned an error code 1 . … Read more