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		+	apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and
		+	installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update
		+	and install.
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	=Commands:=		=Commands:=
	==update==		==update==

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Revision as of 18:40, 29 July 2006

apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update and install.

Commands:

update

• Retrieve new lists of packages

upgrade

• Perform an upgrade

install

• Install new packages
  • For example a package is libc6 not libc6.deb
  • You would use apt-get isntall libc6, not apt-get install libc6.deb

remove

Remove package

source

Download source archives

build-dep

Configure build-dependencies for source packages

dist-upgrade

Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)

dselect-upgrade

Follow dselect selections

clean

• Erase downloaded archive files

autoclean

Erase old downloaded archive files

check

Verify that there are no broken dependencies

Options

-h

-q

-qq

-d

-s

-y

-f

-m

-u

-b

-V

-c=?

-o=?