doc/apt.8

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  17 .TH apt 8 "16 June 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux"
  18 .SH NAME
  19 apt \- Advanced Package Tool
  20 .SH SYNOPSIS
  21 .B apt
  22 .SH DESCRIPTION
  23 APT is a management system for software packages. For normal day to day
  24 package management there are several frontends available, like
  25 .BR aptitude (8)
  26 for the command line or
  27 .BR synaptic (8)for X-Windows. Some options are only implemented in
  28 .BR apt-get (8) though.
  29 .SH OPTIONS
  30 None.
  31 .SH FILES
  32 None.
  33 .SH SEE ALSO
  34 .BR apt-cache (8),
  35 .BR apt-get (8),
  36 .BR apt.conf (5),
  37 .BR sources.list (5),
  38 .BR apt-secure (8)
  39 .SH DIAGNOSTICS
  40 apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
  41 .SH BUGS
  42 This manpage isn't even started.
  43 .PP
  44 See <http://bugs.debian.org/apt>.  If you wish to report a
  45 bug in
  46 .BR apt ,
  47 please see
  48 .I /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt
  49 or the
  50 .BR reportbug (1)
  51 command.
  52 .SH AUTHOR
  53 apt was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.