Updating resources

Now that we know how to interact with the Terminal and Linux basics, we will just look at some final steps:

• Updating the source list
• Installing terminator
• Installing required updates

Note

Going to the Kali machine, the first thing that I want to show you is viewing the machine in full screen. Just go to View and then Full-screen, and that will automatically expand everything and put it in proper full screen.

Let's look at the package manager in Kali Linux. We can install programs using a command called apt-get. We usually type in apt-get, and then, if we want to install something, we type apt-get install, followed by the package name (the program name). Before we do any of that, we have to update the sources; the way this program works is through fetching a number of libraries. On a fresh installation, we want to update our sources, so we make sure that it has the latest sources for the libraries, and the latest available programs. We're just going to use apt-get update. This...