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Kali Linux add PPA repository add-apt-repository
A Personal Package Archive (PPA) is a special software repository for uploading source packages to be built and published as an APT repository by Launchpad or a similar application. While the term is used exclusively within Ubuntu, Launchpad host Canonical envisions adoption beyond the Ubuntu community.
Debian allows users to add and use PPA repositories by an application named add-apt-repository however, Kali Linux didn't include this in their default package list. With Kali, because this is a special purpose application and certain modifications were made to make it work for what it does best (Penetration Test), there's a chance that by adding untested and unsupported PPA repositories and application you might end up breaking your installation.
However, PPA is a powerful tool to have and a lot of the specific applications that are not available in repositories are available via PPA repositories. Users should take extra care before adding unknown and random repositories as it might very well break other things. I mean, how do you know the PPA owner didn't add some harmful code in their system? Generally, you don't. Then again, how do you know that Linux Kernel doesn't have something that's spying on your activity? But I guess that doesn't matter, your ISP would be happy enough to hand over your online activity to NSA anyway ... I could go on and on, but let's not waste more time and move to actual post "Kali Linux add PPA repository add-apt-repository" .. so here goes ..
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Kali Linux add PPA repository add-apt-repository
A Personal Package Archive (PPA) is a special software repository for uploading source packages to be built and published as an APT repository by Launchpad or a similar application. While the term is used exclusively within Ubuntu, Launchpad host Canonical envisions adoption beyond the Ubuntu community.
Debian allows users to add and use PPA repositories by an application named add-apt-repository however, Kali Linux didn't include this in their default package list. With Kali, because this is a special purpose application and certain modifications were made to make it work for what it does best (Penetration Test), there's a chance that by adding untested and unsupported PPA repositories and application you might end up breaking your installation.
However, PPA is a powerful tool to have and a lot of the specific applications that are not available in repositories are available via PPA repositories. Users should take extra care before adding unknown and random repositories as it might very well break other things. I mean, how do you know the PPA owner didn't add some harmful code in their system? Generally, you don't. Then again, how do you know that Linux Kernel doesn't have something that's spying on your activity? But I guess that doesn't matter, your ISP would be happy enough to hand over your online activity to NSA anyway ... I could go on and on, but let's not waste more time and move to actual post "Kali Linux add PPA repository add-apt-repository" .. so here goes ..
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