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APT HOWTO

Abstract

This document intends to provide the user with a good understanding = of the=20 workings of the Debian package management utility, APT. Its goal is to = make life=20 easier for new Debian users and to help those who wish to deepen their=20 understanding of the administration of this system. It was created for = the=20 Debian project in order to help improve the support available for users = of this=20 distribution.=20

Copyright Notice

Copyright =A9 2001, 2002 Gustavo Noronha Silva=20

This manual is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL (Free = Documentation=20 License). It has been written in the hope that it will be useful to the=20 community but it comes with no warranty; use it at your own risk.=20

Contents

  • 1=20 Introduction=20
  • 2 = Basic Configuration=20
    • 2.1=20 The /etc/apt/sources.list file=20
    • 2.2=20 How to use APT locally=20
    • 2.3=20 Deciding which mirror is the best to include in the sources.list = file:=20 netselect, netselect-apt=20
    • 2.4=20 Adding a CD-ROM to the sources.list file
  • 3= =20 Managing packages=20
    • 3.1=20 Updating the list of available packages=20
    • 3.2=20 Installing packages=20
    • 3.3=20 Removing packages=20
    • 3.4=20 Upgrading packages=20
    • 3.5=20 Upgrading to a new release=20
    • 3.6=20 Removing unused package files: apt-get clean and autoclean=20
    • 3.7=20 Using APT with dselect=20
    • 3.8=20 How to keep a mixed system=20
    • 3.9=20 How to upgrade packages from specific versions of Debian=20
    • 3.10=20 How to keep specific versions of packages installed (complex) =
  • 4= =20 Very useful helpers=20
    • 4.1=20 How to install locally compiled packages: equivs=20
    • 4.2=20 Removing unused locale files: localepurge=20
    • 4.3=20 How to know what packages may be upgraded
  • 5 = Getting information about packages.=20
    • 5.1=20 Discovering package names=20
    • 5.2=20 Using dpkg to find package names=20
    • 5.3=20 How to install packages "on demand"=20
    • 5.4=20 How to discover to which package a file belongs=20
    • 5.5=20 How to keep informed about the changes in the packages. =
  • 6=20 Working with source packages=20
    • 6.1=20 Downloading source packages=20
    • 6.2=20 Packages needed for compiling a source package
  • 7=20 How to deal with errors=20
    • 7.1=20 Common errors=20
    • 7.2=20 Where can I find help?
  • 8= =20 What distributions support APT?=20
  • 9=20 Credits=20
  • 10 = New versions of this tutorial
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1.8.1 - October 2002
Gustavo Noronha Silva kov@debian.org