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[Acronym] for __A__ __P__ackage __T__ool.

Apt is a system for automatically dealing with package dependencies and installation.  The basic tool for apt is apt-get(8); you issue

 # apt-get install foo

And get a screen like this:

 [[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]

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; the new version of Nautilus [deprecates|Deprecate] nautilus-printers, so it will remove that package.

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/

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