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-[Acronym] for __A__ __P__ackage __T__ool
.
+[Acronym] for __A__dvanced
__P__ackage __T__ools
.
-Apt
is a system for automatically dealing with
package dependencies and installation
.
The basic tool for apt is apt-get(8); you issue
+[APT]
is a system that layers automatic
package dependency resolution on top of an arbitrary PackageManagementTool
. The original implementation uses [Debian]'s [Deb] package format as a base, but with AptForRpm an implementation that supports [RedHat]'s [RPM] format also exists.
- # apt-get install foo
-And
get a screen
like this:
+The basic tool for apt is apt-
get(8). Using it looks something
like
- [
[root@brian nvidia
]# apt-get install gnome-vfs2
- Reading Package Lists... Done
- Building Dependency Tree... Done
- The following extra packages will be installed:
- eel2 nautilus
- The following packages will be upgraded
- eel2 gnome-vfs2 nautilus
- The following packages will be REMOVED:
- nautilus-printers
- 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 582 not upgraded.
- Need to get 4332kB
of archives.
- After unpacking 331kB
of additional disk space will be used.
- Do you want to continue? [
[Y/n]
+<verbatim>
+
[root@debian ~
] # apt-get install foo
+Reading Package Lists... Done
+Building Dependency Tree... Done
+The following extra packages will be installed:
+ bar baz
+The following packages will be upgraded
+ bar foo baz
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+ quux
+3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 582 not upgraded.
+Need to get 12345kB
of archives.
+After unpacking 1234kB
of additional disk space will be used.
+Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
+</verbatim>
-Apt
has calculated that in order to install the latest version of gnome-vfs2
, you will need to upgrade to a newer eel2
and nautilus
; nautilus-printers
is [Deprecated] by the new version of Nautilus
, so it will remove that package.
+[APT]
has calculated that in order to install the latest version of <tt>foo</tt>
, you will need to upgrade to a newer <tt>bar</tt>
and <tt>baz</tt>
; <tt>quux</tt>
is [Deprecated] by the new version of <tt>baz</tt>
, so it will remove that package. It also calculated that with the old versions of the packages gone and the new ones updated and installed, an additional 1234[KB] disk space will be taken
.
-Designed for [Debian]'s .[Deb] package format, it
also supports
[RedHat
]'s [RPM] format through AptForRpm.
-
-WLUG have an
APT repository on the way - see
http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/debian/
+See
also:
+*
[WLUG
]'s [APT repository |
http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/debian/] for [Debian]
+* AptNotes
