If you’ve ever used a modern Linux distribution, you’ve likely experienced the convenience of installing and updating software with a single command. Package managers, the tools behind this ease of ...

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.

Linux has numerous package managers. There are command-line and GUI tools for the task. Not all package managers are created equal. When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called ...

Nala is a much cleaner, neater alternative for the APT package manager Your email has been sent I’ve been using Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux distributions for a very, very long time. As such, I’ve seen ...

Version 3.0.0 of the package manager apt was released at the weekend. The user interface has been given a better display and thus helps to maintain an overview. The release of version 3.0.0 of apt ...

Unlock the potential of your Linux package manager and say goodbye to broken dependencies.

apt-get, up2date, yum, pkgtool, dpkg, rpm -- we have lots of ways to avoid compiling programs. For the most part, I don't think that it's because we don't like to compile programs, but rather because ...

I'm interested in installing some sort of package management tool on a <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org">Linux from scratch</a> install. Either RPM, YUM, or ...