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 Playstore from Playstore.
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 an iOS device, you use the App Store similarly.
So apt is a command line utility which helps you does all this 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 APD.
So on my terminal I'm going to run the command, which is apt, and then hyphen edge.
Hyphen Edge 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 APD 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.