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What Is APT (Advanced Package Tool) For Linux?

What Is APT (Advanced Package Tool) For Linux?

Apt or Advanced Package Tool is a tool or application which is used to manage packages on Linux distributions. In Linux terminology, a package is an application, library, tool which is similar to the program on Windows. Linux distributions generally use centralized repositories to install and update applications where the package is provided by these … Read more

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 Install and Config Polipo Caching Web Proxy On Linux?

Polipo was the best HTTP proxy when it emerged. Since then web behavior has a lot changed and HTTPS became popular. HTTPS prevents intermediates to read traffic and cache them. Polipo is not maintained currently but useful for different cases. Install For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali We can install polipo for Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali with the … Read more

Yum Repository Configuration For RedHat, CentOS, and Fedora

Yum Repository Configuration For RedHat, CentOS and Fedora

yum is a tool used to manage rpm packages in distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc. Most know feature of yum is using repositories in order to manage packages download and resolve dependencies. In this tutorial, we will examine the yum repository configuration. List Yum Repository Configurations yum repositories are stored as files with related configuration. These configuration files are … 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

How To Clean Unused Packages with Apt Autoremove?

Linux distributions uses package managers in order to install new software. apt is one of the most popular package management tool. Over time installed packages will be hold in the operating system. This is will create some overhead for disk usage. In this tutorial we will look to to remove this cached and unused packages. Use … 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