Practical Web Penetration Testing

The Advanced Packaging Tool

The Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) is used for installing or upgrading packages, along with all of the required dependencies. The APT can also be used to upgrade a complete distribution of Kali:

• apt-get update or apt update: This command is used to synchronize the local package index files with their sources, as defined in /etc/apt/sources.list. The update command should always be used first, before performing an upgrade or dist-upgrade.
• apt-get upgrade or apt upgrade: This command is used to install the newest versions of all packages installed on the system using /etc/apt/sources.list. The upgrade command will not change or delete packages that are not being upgraded, and it will not install packages that are ...