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(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.debian.org/Apt

A package manager, notably used by Debian.

This refers mainly to apt-get and apt-cache although there is the separate-but-compatible project that is just apt.

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• 2020-03-05 - 1.4.9 on Debian 10.1.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1
• 2017-07-23 - 1.0.9.8.4 on Devuan 1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD

• 2008-08-15 - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)

2008-08-15 - (version not recorded) ∞

Boy, what an awful program. It has to re-read this huge database of crap every time it does anything. So very very terrible to work with.

Usage ∞

System updating ∞

su
# Update all packages
# WARNING: In theory, updating can break things!
# Consider backing up before, and rebooting then testing after.
apt-get autoclean && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Searching for archives ∞

apt-cache search

Package information ∞

(For installed packages)

\apt-cache  show  dash

Package: dash
Source: dash (0.5.7-4)
Version: 0.5.7-4+b1
Essential: yes
Installed-Size: 190
Maintainer: Gerrit Pape <email address>
Architecture: i386
Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15), dpkg (>= 1.15.0)
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11)
Description: POSIX-compliant shell
Description-md5: 8d4d9c32c6b2b70328f7f774a0cc1248
Homepage: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::shell, role::program, scope::utility
Section: shells
Priority: required
Filename: pool/DEBIAN/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.7-4+b1_i386.deb
Size: 111654
MD5sum: 2765622d6f2a51d59806c9b8d6481fe7
SHA1: aa5bf2a355775f721a07d97fd6679a4232712d9e
SHA256: f07dd54c95146cdd053e30101c7c5aa6eef03cbbaaea73128ceda7f4fb353a96

Location of downloaded archives ∞

APT keeps its downloaded files here:

/var/cache/apt/archives/

Building your own .deb Debian packages ∞

See CheckInstall

GUI tools ∞

• /tag/apt+software

• kynaptic

  • 2009-02-01 -- Nice and fast, but for some fucking stupid reason it won't show the descriptions for items. How useless is that?! Sigh.

Last updated 2022-06-05 at 18:51:21