On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Behan Webster wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > - Behan: Can you look at the 'command line GUI' that is apt-get? Looks > > like it is going to stay. > > I've been wanting too, but I can't find it anywhere? I've been looking > for it for weeks on our mirror. Where can it be found?
ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/project/experimental/deity_19980324-1_i386.deb The program is dpkg-get, newer versions will call it apt-get. I've attached the man page as applies to the version in CVS which is not the version in that .deb - it has no commandline options. Jason apt-get(8) apt-get(8) NAME apt-get - package handling utility -- command-line inter- face SYNOPSIS apt-get [options] command [package ...] DESCRIPTION apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "back-end" to apt(8). Use apt(8) if the usage of apt-get does not seem intu- itive. command is one of update upgrade dselect-upgrade dist-upgrade install check Only the install command requires any further arguments. update update is used to resynchronize the package overview files from their sources. The overviews of available packages are fetched from the location(s) specified in sources.list. For example, when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the Packages.gz files, so that information about new and updated packages is avail- able. An update should always be performed before an upgrade or dist-upgrade. upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without chang- ing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. dselect-upgrade dselect-upgrade is used in conjunction with the tradi- tional Debian GNU/Linux packaging front-end, dselect.dse- lect-upgrade follows the changes made by dselect to the Status field of available packages, and performs the actions necessary to realize that state (for instance, the removal of old and the installation of new packages). dselect-upgrade does not attempt to intelligently address dependency issues as dist-upgrade or install do. If any dependency problems arise, apt-get aborts without perform- ing any of the actions requested, even those without prob- lems. This option is only useful to users of dselect and the .deb package file format. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. dist-upgrade dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" con- flict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less impor- tant ones if necessary. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. install install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian GNU/Linux system, lsdo would be the argument provided, not ldso_1.9.6-2.deb). All packages required by the pack- age(s) specified for installation will also be retrieved and installed. The /etc/apt/sources.list file is used to locate the desired packages. check check is a diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache and checks for broken packages. OPTIONS -h Help; display a helpful usage message and exit. -q Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omit- ting progress indicators. -qq Very quiet; no output except for errors. -d Download only; package files are only retrieved, not unpacked or installed. -s No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not actually change the system. -y Automatic yes to prompts; assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively. FILES /etc/apt/sources.list SEE ALSO apt(8), apt-cache(8), sources.list(5) DIAGNOSTICS apt-get returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error. BUGS See <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lapt.html>. If you wish to report a bug in apt-get, please see /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the bug(1) command. AUTHOR apt-get was written by the APT team <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ages.debian.org>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
