how to upgrade ubuntu in bt5

**fouzdar** · March 6th, 2013

Is there any command or process via ubuntu can be upgraded in backtrack5.... and ubuntu tools can be intalled in backtrack5r2.

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please tell me too where I should go to ask some questions about bt5

thankx

**grahammechanical** · March 6th, 2013

Where did you get Backtrack from? That is where you should go to ask questions about Backtrack.

**fouzdar** · March 6th, 2013

alright thnx anyways

**Cheesemill** · March 6th, 2013

Although BackTrack is originally based on Ubuntu 10.04 it has been highly customized and uses its own repositories.

It uses a custom kernel as well as custom versions of other core applications. Adding Ubuntu repositories to a BackTrack installation to try and upgrade it is a quick way to seriously break your installation.

Unless you do pen-testing for a living there is no reason that you actually have to use BackTrack, it would be easier to install the few applications that you need into a standard Ubuntu installation as the majority of them are already available in the Ubuntu repositories. Also the BackTrack devs are moving away from using Ubuntu as a base, the next distribution that they are currently working on (Kali Linux) is based on Debian instead of Ubuntu.