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[Acronym] for __A__dvanced __P__ackage __T__ools.

[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.


The basic tool for apt is apt-get(8). Using it looks something like

<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 <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.

See also:
* [WLUG]'s [APT repository | http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/debian/] for [Debian]
* AptNotes

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Last edited on Thursday, July 7, 2005 9:44:59 am by AristotlePagaltzis

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