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17 .TH apt 8 "16 June 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux"
19 apt \- Advanced Package Tool
23 APT is a management system for software packages. For normal day to day
24 package management there are several frontends available, such as
26 for the command line or
28 for the X Window System. Some options are only implemented in
40 .BR apt_preferences (5),
43 apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
45 This manpage isn't even started.
47 See <http://bugs.debian.org/apt>. If you wish to report a
51 .I /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt
56 apt was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.