enddit()
manpageoptions()
+All command line options may be set using the configuration file, the
+descriptions indicate the configuration option to set. For boolean
+options you can override the config file by using something like bf(-f-),
+bf(--no-f), bf(-f=no) or several other variations.
startdit()
dit(bf(-h, --help))
Show a short usage summary.
+dit(bf(-v, --version))
+Show the program verison.
+
dit(bf(-p --pkg-cache))
Select the file to store the package cache. The package cache is the primary
cache used by all operations.
+See bf(Dir::Cache::pkgcache).
dit(bf(-s --src-cache))
Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by
bf(gencaches) and it stores a parsed version of the package information from
remote sources. When building the package cache the source cache is used
to advoid reparsing all of the package files.
+See bf(Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache).
dit(bf(-q, --quiet))
Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators.
More qs will produce more quite up to a maximum of 2. You can also use
bf(-q=#) to set the quiet level, overriding the configuration file.
+See bf(quiet).
dit(bf(-i --important))
Print only important deps; for use with unmet causes only em(Depends) and
em(Pre-Depends) relations to be printed.
+See bf(APT::Cache::Important).
dit(bf(-c, --config-file))
Configuration File; Specify a configuration file to use. bf(apt-get) will
)
manpageseealso()
-apt-get (8),
-dpkg (8),
-dselect (8),
-sources.list (5)
+apt-get(8),
+sources.list(5),
+apt.conf(5)
manpagediagnostics()
apt-cache returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
manpagebugs()
-See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lapt.html. If you wish to report a
+See http://bugs.debian.org/apt. If you wish to report a
bug in bf(apt-cache), please see bf(/usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt)
or the bf(bug(1)) command.
projects / apt.git / blobdiff