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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 foo
, you will need to upgrade to a newer bar
and baz
; quux
is [Deprecated] by the new version of Nautilus, 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
