Hi, so in
this lesson we are going to understand about apt which
stands for advanced package tool.
So what exactly is apt?
So apt is a package manager, which allows
you to install remove update and
upgrade packages from your
Linux operating system.
As we are using Kali Linux OS
we would be using apt by default
to install and remove packages in
our system.
It is very much similar to any other package
manager that you would be using in different OS
to install or remove package.
Let me give you a very simple example.
Let's say if you're using your Android mobile phone.
You use Play Store.
From Play Store you are able to download a specific
app or a game.
Which helps you download and fetch that
specific package or game from
the Play Store repo?
And if you are on iOS device you use
the app store similarly.
So apt is a command line utility which helps
you does all the task, which
are related to packages.
So it's the Practical time and let's see how
you can run the command and how to use apt.
So on my terminal I'm going to run the command which is
apt and then hyphen h.
Hyphen, H stands for Help menu, and you
can see this most used commands in
The Help menu, which will help you understand more how
to use the specific apt package manager.
EBT list will show you all the
list of packages based on any package
name that you want.
For example, if you want to install a tool, which
is VLC, then you can search for apt VLC
and it will give you all the
matching results with that specific software.
Or if you want to install Docker, then you can search for
apt list.
And that will give you a complete list of packages based
on the package name that is installed in
the system.
Now if you want to read more about apt and
understand about it, you can use the
man command man command stands for
manual.
It gives you an idea about the manual of any
tool that you want.
So here we can see what are
the commands to read install remove
programs using apt?
I hope you guys understood. Thank you.