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The basics of apt-get

apt-get’s commands are very easy and intuitive. These commands will be very useful in managing software in Debian and Ubuntu (based) systems.

Its commands follow this structure:

    # apt-get [options] command     # apt-get [options] install package [package ...]

The command line may be a variation of the following basic types:

apt-get update

Updates apt-get’s local database with server’s pkglist’s files.
apt-get check
verifies system’s integrity using apt
apt-get install some-package
installs some new package, automatically resolving and downloading dependent packages
apt-get upgrade
checks for outdated packages in the system and automatically upgrades them
apt-get dist-upgrade
same as apt-get upgrade, but installs all base packages and tries to upgrade everything, installing new packages if needed
apt-get remove some-package
removes the some-package package and all other packages that depends on it
apt-get clean
removes the downloaded packages from the cache directory (/var/cache/apt/archives/), freeing some disk space at your system.

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One Response to “The basics of apt-get”

  1. thinkweird Says:
    September 1st, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    For me, the apt-get command is more typing work compared to wajig (http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Wajig_Overview.html). Once I started using it, it never turned back to apt-get.

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