How To Install apt-config-auto-update on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-config-auto-update on Kali Linux.

What is apt-config-auto-update

apt-config-auto-update is:

This package contains configuration snippets for the APT package manager to make it automatically update its package cache.

This is useful for systems which do not use a daemon like PackageKit to trigger cache refreshes at convenient times. The configuration will not trigger automatic installation of updates, for this functionality consider using the unattended-upgrades utility.

There are three methods to install apt-config-auto-update 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-config-auto-update 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-config-auto-update using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apt-config-auto-update

Install apt-config-auto-update Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install apt-config-auto-update

Install apt-config-auto-update 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-config-auto-update using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apt-config-auto-update

How To Uninstall apt-config-auto-update on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the apt-config-auto-update package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apt-config-auto-update

Uninstall apt-config-auto-update And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-config-auto-update

Remove apt-config-auto-update Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge apt-config-auto-update

Remove apt-config-auto-update configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-config-auto-update

Dependencies

apt-config-auto-update have the following dependencies:

References

• apt-config-auto-update website

Summary

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