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apt-get Installs, upgrades and uninstalls packages. apt-cache This works with the repository index files, such as searching for packages. add-apt-repository Adds extra repositories to the system.
As the Ubuntu apt security message stated, "apt, starting with version 0.8.15, decodes target URLs of redirects, but does not check them for newlines, allowing MiTM attackers (or repository ...
APT groups are increasingly executing targeted attacks against Linux-based devices as well as developing more Linux-focused tools, according to an investigation by Kaspersky. This is as a result of a ...
How to hold a package back with apt Holding a package back with apt can be done with a single command. Let’s say the package in question is php7.4 and you want to make sure it isn’t upgraded.
When you use the apt command to install new packages or run routine upgrades on your Debian-based Linux system, you might wonder where information about your activities are being recorded. For one ...
How-to By Linux Format published 30 September 2015 Master apt-get, the powerful command line tool ...
The limitation will be removed when Ubuntu finishes its plan to replace X with Mir, its own display server. (Wayland, the other major display server in the works for Linux distributions, also ...