Download App: Install Synaptic Package Manager in Kali Linux

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Install Synaptic Package Manager in Kali Linux

About Synaptic Package Manager

Synaptic Package Manager is GTK+- based GUI for apt (Advance Packaging Tool)- the package management used by Debian and its derivatives. Synaptic Package Manager- a very handy tool, used to install, remove and update software packages and add repositories. Though, based on deb packages but can be used on the system bsed on RPM packages.

Features

Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages System-wide upgrade
Package search utility
Manage package repositories
Find packages by name, description and several other attributes
Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter
Sort packages by name, status, size or version
Browse available online documentation related to a package
Download the latest changelog of a package
Lock packages to the current version
Force the installation of a specific package version
Undo/Redo of selections
Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager
Allows creation of download scripts

I have tested it on Kali Linux 1.1.0a machine with 32-bit architecture. To begin installing Synaptic Package Manager on your system,

1. Please add below two repositories

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib

deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

to sources.list file (path: Computer -> File System -> etc -> apt -> sources.list). Save the file and exit. To know more on Kali Linux repositories please check my post, Kali Linux Repositories.

Note: Before saving sources.list file, make sure that it shouldnt have duplicate entries of repository/ ies or else you may get 404 error or unmet dependency error.

2. Now open terminal and type apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to update kali linux.