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1 | apt - Advanced Packaging Tool |
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| 4 | apt is the main package management tool for Debian and its variants. | |
| 5 | It enables to search and install deb packages. The underlying libraries | |
| 6 | that apt is build upon are called libapt-pkg and libapt-inst. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | Coding | |
| 9 | ------ | |
| 10 | Apt is maintained in git, considering creating a branch when you | |
| 11 | start hacking on it. | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | Apt uses its own autoconf based build system, see README.make for | |
| 14 | more details. To get started, just run: | |
| 15 | ``` | |
| 16 | $ make | |
| 17 | ``` | |
| 18 | from a fresh checkout. | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | When you make changes and want to run them, make sure your | |
| 21 | $LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the new location, e.g. via: | |
| 22 | ``` | |
| 23 | $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/build/bin | |
| 24 | $ ./build/bin/apt-get moo | |
| 25 | ``` | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | Testing | |
| 28 | ------- | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | There is a extensive integration testsuite available via: | |
| 31 | ``` | |
| 32 | $ ./test/integration/run-tests | |
| 33 | ``` | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | as well as gtest-dev based integration tests available in | |
| 36 | `./test/libapt` and can be run with make test. | |
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