Getting Started - Basic usage

So now that you have installed BackTrack, we wish to do something with it.
First thing we shall do is connect to the internet, update and upgrade the sources.

Press Alt + F2. In this window you can type in the name of any installed package on your computer and it will run it (if it has a gui).

To connect to the internet you will need to start the internet manager on BackTrack: WICD. So type in wicd into the popped-up window, press on show list of known applications and double click on wicd-gtk...

Find your network and press connect. If it has a security passphrase, you will be prompted to enter the password. Enter it, press save and click on connect again.

Now that you have internet access, it is very important you update your sources to always have the latest versions of packages available for downloading in order to prevent problems and errors in the future. Note: it is recommended to update the sources once a week.

Open up terminal and type:

apt-get update

If you have an internet connection, the source list will be updated.
Now that you have updated it, it is time to download the newest updates for all packages. For that we type in terminal:

apt-get upgrade

You will notice that at the end of this process you will have 3 packages that have encountered errors during the upgrade:
Beef, W3af and SET.

How to fix that, I will write about it in future posts.