apt
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 16 June 1998
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NAME
apt - Advanced Package Tool
 
SYNOPSIS
apt
 
DESCRIPTION
APT is a management system for software packages. For normal day to day
package management there are several frontends available, such as
aptitude(8)
for the command line or
synaptic(8)
for the X Window System. Some options are only implemented in
apt-get(8)
though.
 
SEE ALSO
apt-cache(8),
apt-get(8),
apt.conf(5),
sources.list(5),
apt_preferences(5),
apt-secure(8)
 
DIAGNOSTICS
apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
 
BUGS
This manpage isn't even started.
See <http://bugs.debian.org/apt>.  If you wish to report a
bug in
apt,
please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt
or the
reportbug(1)
command.
 
AUTHOR
apt was written by the APT team <
apt@packages.debian.org>.
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