Acronym for A Package Tool.

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

1. 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? 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/