Provides read access to APT repositories.
| Command | Help |
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| file packages | Apt file packages [--archs <arch>,<arch>,...] [--distribs <distrib>,<distrib>,...] [--releases <release>,<release>,...] <filename> Lists packages that contain the given filename. <distrib>s are name of distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, "Debian Backports", ...) to look in, and <release> are release names (buster, bionic, stretch-backports) to look in. <arch>s are names of CPU architectures (arm64, amd64, i386, ...). |
| package depends | Apt package depends [--archs <arch>,<arch>,...] [--distribs <distrib>,<distrib>,...] [--releases <release>,<release>,...] [--types <type>,<type>,...] <package> Lists dependencies of a package. <type>s are types of dependencies that will be shown. Valid types are: Breaks, Conflicts, Depends, Enhances, PreDepends, Recommends, Replaces, Suggests. <distrib>s are name of distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, "Debian Backports", ...) to look in, and <release> are release names (buster, bionic, stretch-backports) to look in. <arch>s are names of CPU architectures (arm64, amd64, i386, ...). |
| package description | Apt package description [--archs <arch>,<arch>,...] [--distribs <distrib>,<distrib>,...] [--releases <release>,<release>,...] <package> Shows the long description of a package. <distrib>s are name of distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, "Debian Backports", ...) to look in, and <release> are release names (buster, bionic, stretch-backports) to look in. <arch>s are names of CPU architectures (arm64, amd64, i386, ...). |
| package info | Apt package info [--archs <arch>,<arch>,...] [--distribs <distrib>,<distrib>,...] [--releases <release>,<release>,...] <package> Shows generic information about a package. <distrib>s are name of distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, "Debian Backports", ...) to look in, and <release> are release names (buster, bionic, stretch-backports) to look in. <arch>s are names of CPU architectures (arm64, amd64, i386, ...). |
| package search | Apt package search [--archs <arch>,<arch>,...] [--distribs <distrib>,<distrib>,...] [--releases <release>,<release>,...] [--with-version] [--description] <package> Shows generic information about a package. --with-version also returns matching version numbers. --description searches in package description instead of name. <distrib>s are name of distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, "Debian Backports", ...) to look in, and <release> are release names (buster, bionic, stretch-backports) to look in. <arch>s are names of CPU architectures (arm64, amd64, i386, ...). |
| update | Apt update takes no arguments Updates the APT cache from repositories. |