How To Install apt on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt on Kali Linux. apt is commandline package manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt on Kali Linux.

What is `apt`

apt is:

This package provides commandline tools for searching and
managing as well as querying information about packages
as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.

These include:

apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
removal of packages together with their dependencies
apt-cache for querying available information about installed
as well as installable packages
apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys

There are three methods to install apt on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install apt Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install apt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apt

Install apt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install apt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install apt

Install apt Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install apt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apt

How To Uninstall apt on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the apt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apt

Uninstall apt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt

Remove apt Configurations and Data

To remove apt configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apt

Remove apt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove apt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt

Dependencies

apt have the following dependencies:

References

apt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.