Apt is more than just a software installer. The Debian/Ubuntu package manager can do much more. With these commands at your disposal, apt becomes more powerful. I've used Debian/Ubuntu-based ...

When it comes to package management on Linux systems, two popular tools are YUM and APT. YUM, short for Yellowdog Updater Modified, is commonly used in Red Hat-based distributions like CentOS and RHEL ...

Ubuntu developer Gianpiero Carpinelli at Canonical has been working on introducing SHA3-256 and SHA3-384 support for Debian's ...

If you want to install a program on the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint Linux distribution family, you almost always end up using the core software installer program Advanced Package Tool (apt). It works well, but ...

When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called “source code,” as in you had to install everything from source. Eventually, package managers started showing up to make things ...

Independent consultant and security contractor Max Justicz discovered a remote code execution issue in the APT high level package manager used by Debian, Ubuntu, and other related Linux distributions.

the Lineox rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But if you prefer apt, the associated tools can be installed on most Linux distributions. In this chapter, you'll learn the fundamentals of apt, ...