25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management

This article explains how quickly you can learn to install, remove, update and search software packages using apt-get and apt-cache commands from the command line. This article provides some useful commands that will help you to handle package management in Debian/Ubuntu based systems.

What is apt-get?

The apt-get utility is a powerful and free package management command line program, that is used to work with Ubuntu’s APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) library to perform installation of new software packages, removing existing software packages, upgrading of existing software packages and even used to upgrading the entire operating system.

What is apt-cache?

The apt-cache command line tool is used for searching apt software package cache. In simple words, this tool is used to search software packages, collects information of packages and also used to search for what available packages are ready for installation on Debian or Ubuntu based systems.

BackTrack 5 or Kali Linux 1.0

BackTrack is/was a specialty Linux distribution for security professionals. It is designed for hacking and penetration testing and is loaded with the best Free and Open Source (FOSS) hacking applications available. The last edition was BackTrack 5 R3 (the R is for Revolution).

After BackTrack 5 R3, the developers decided to retool and revamp their distribution. The result of their effort was released as Kali Linux. So the gist of this article is this: BackTrack is now known as Kali Linux, and if you came to this website searching for information about BackTrack 5 R3, Kali Linux 1.0 is the distribution you should be looking for.

So, aside from upgraded applications and a name change, what’s the real difference between BackTrack and Kali Linux?

How to use WINE in Kali linux

What’s Wine?

Initially, the name Wine was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. But now, Wine Is Not an Emulator: it is a compatibility layer, an interface that allows to run Windows binaries on a host system. To do this, Wine implements the Windows application binary interface in the user space, rather than as a kernel module. A daemon known as wineserver provides the services normally provided by Windows kernel.

The security in Wine is good enough, because applications running in Wine are confined to the current user’s privileges. For this, is a good choice to not run Wine with the superuser‘s account, because of its unlimited privileges! However, it is too difficult that a virus written for Windows damages our system.

Complete Guide On How To Install Kali Linux In VMware

This tutorial will walk you through the difficult process of installing Kali Linux in VMware Player, a free virtual machine manager that can be downloaded from www.vmware.com.

Step 1:

First we need to download Kali from http://kali.org/downloads/. If you have a 64-bit capable computer , then you probably will want the 64-bit version of Kali for performance reasons.
Expand the drop down menu’s to find the version you need. Select the 64-bit version ONLY if you have a 64-bit computer.