This package provides commandline tools for searching and managing as well as querying information packages as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library. . These include: * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information them from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and removal of packages together with their dependencies * apt-cache for querying available information installed as well as installable packages * apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages * apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings * apt-extracttemp lates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation.
This package contains the user guide and offline guide for various APT tools which are provided in a html and a text-only version.
This is a dummy transitional package - https support has been moved into the apt package in 1.5. It can be safely removed.
This package contains some less used commandline utilities related to package management with APT. . * apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files needed to publish an archive of Debian packages * apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer.
This package contains the header files and libraries for developing with APT's libapt-pkg Debian package manipulation library and the libapt-inst deb/tar/ar library.
This package contains documentation for development of the APT Debian package manipulation program and its libraries. . This includes the source code documentation generated by doxygen in html format.
This library provides the common functionality for searching and managing packages as well as information packages. Higher-level package managers can depend upon this library. . This includes: * retrieval of information packages from multiple sources * retrieval of packages and all dependent packages needed to satisfy a request either through an internal solver or by interfacing with an external one * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data * installation and removal of packages in the system * providing different transports to retrieve data over cdrom and http(s) as well as an interface to add more transports like tor+http(s) (apt-transport- tor).
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