dselect/desc.apt

   1 The APT installation method encompasses most other installation methods
   2 under the umbrella of the new Package Acquisition code. This method allows
   3 installation from locations in the filesystem, ftp and http URLs, supports
   4 full installation ordering and dependency checking as well as multiple
   5 sources. See the man pages apt-get(8) and sources.list(5)
   6
   7 HTTP proxies can be used by setting http_proxy="http://proxy:port/" before
   8 running DSelect. FTP proxies require special configuration detailed in
   9 the apt.conf(5) man page (see /usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf)