Installing Debian Software with the Advanced Package Tool

Will Trillich

wdt@users.sourceforge.net

Revision History
Revision v0.0123 July 2001Revised by: rml
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. About APT
1.2. Using APT with the shell
2. Using APT to install packages
2.1. Assumptions
2.2. Setup -- apt-setup
2.3. Following a distribution
2.4. Updating your system -- apt-get upgrade
2.5. Installing packages -- apt-get install
3. Getting information about packages
3.1. Finding packages -- apt-cache search
3.2. Describing packages -- apt-cache show
3.3. Listing packages -- dpkg -l
3.4. Combine dpkg with grep for some powerful searches
3.5. Package contents -- dpkg -L
3.6. Finding which package contains... -- dpkg -S
4. Learn more