APT User's Guide

Abstract

This document provides an overview of how to use the the APT package manager.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © Jason Gunthorpe, 1998.

"APT" and this document are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.

Contents

• 1 General
  • 1.1 Anatomy of the Package System
• 2 apt-get
• 3 DSelect
• 4 The Interface
  • 4.1 Startup
  • 4.2 The Status Report
  • 4.3 The Status Display
  • 4.4 Dpkg