]>
<refentry>
- &apt-docinfo;
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ &apt-author.jgunthorpe;
+ &apt-author.team;
+ &apt-email;
+ &apt-product;
+ <!-- The last update date -->
+ <date>29 February 2004</date>
+ </refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>apt-cache</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="manual">APT</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<!-- Man page title -->
<arg>rdepends <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
<arg>pkgnames <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>prefix</replaceable></arg></arg>
<arg>dotty <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
+ <arg>xvcg <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
<arg>policy <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkgs</replaceable></arg></arg>
<arg>madison <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkgs</replaceable></arg></arg>
</group>
<listitem><para><literal>Missing</literal> is the number of package names that were referenced in
a dependency but were not provided by any package. Missing packages may
- be in evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a package
+ be an evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a package
(real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually they
- are referenced from Conflicts statements.</para>
+ are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions
<varlistentry><term>show <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><literal>show</literal> performs a function similar to
- <command>dpkg --print-avail</command>i; it displays the package records for the
+ <command>dpkg --print-avail</command>; it displays the package records for the
named packages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>search <replaceable>regex [ regex ... ]</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available package
- lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the
+ lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle><command>regex</command></refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ It searches the package names and the
descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out
- the package name and the short description. If <option>--full</option> is given
+ the package name and the short description, including virtual package
+ names.
+ If <option>--full</option> is given
then output identical to <literal>show</literal> is produced for each matched
package, and if <option>--names-only</option> is given then the long description
is not searched, only the package name is.</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>rdepends <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para><literal>rdepends</literal>shows a listing of each reverse dependency a
+ <listitem><para><literal>rdepends</literal> shows a listing of each reverse dependency a
package has.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>pkgnames <replaceable>[ prefix ]</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>This command prints the name of each package in the system. The optional
+ <listitem><para>This command prints the name of each package APT knows. The optional
argument is a prefix match to filter the name list. The output is suitable
for use in a shell tab complete function and the output is generated
extremely quickly. This command is best used with the
- <option>--generate</option> option.</para></listitem>
+ <option>--generate</option> option.</para>
+ <para>Note that a package which APT knows of is not necessarily available to download,
+ installable or installed, e.g. virtual packages are also listed in the generated list.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>dotty <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
<para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term>xvcg <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem><para>The same as <literal>dotty</literal>, only for xvcg from the
+ <ulink url="http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html">VCG tool</ulink>.
+ </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>policy <replaceable>[ pkg(s) ]</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para><literal>policy</literal> is ment to help debug issues relating to the
+ <listitem><para><literal>policy</literal> is meant to help debug issues relating to the
preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the
priorities of each source. Otherwise it prints out detailed information
about the priority selection of the named package.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by
<literal>gencaches</literal> 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.
+ source cache is used to avoid reparsing all of the package files.
Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>-i</option></term><term><option>--important</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet. Causes only Depends and
+ <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet and depends. Causes only Depends and
Pre-Depends relations to be printed.
Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Important</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<refsect1><title>Files</title>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term><filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Locations to fetch packages from.
- Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::Etc::SourceList</literal>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><filename>&statedir;/lists/</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Storage area for state information for each package resource specified in
- &sources-list;
- Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::State::Lists</literal>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><filename>&statedir;/lists/partial/</filename></term>
- <listitem><para>Storage area for state information in transit.
- Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::State::Lists</literal> (implicit partial).</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ &file-sourceslist;
+ &file-statelists;
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
</refsect1>
&manbugs;
- &manauthor;
</refentry>
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