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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

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 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

Dpkg Error “Dpkg Was Interrupted” and Solution

This is a small post about dpkg error. Dpkg is a tool used to manage package installation, removing, update of distributions like Debian, Ubuntu. Actually dpkg can be used distributions like Fedora, CentOS, RedHat but their default package manager is rpm. Error Here is the problem while install a package with apt-get or dpkg directly … Read more