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-<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent">
%aptent;
<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent">
%aptverbatiment;
+<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent">
+%aptvendor;
]>
<refentry>
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>2012-05-21T00:00:00Z</date>
+ <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<listitem><para><literal>Pure virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages that exist
only as a virtual package name; that is, packages only "provide" the
virtual package name, and no package actually uses the name. For
- instance, "mail-transport-agent" in the Debian GNU/Linux system is a
+ instance, "mail-transport-agent" in the Debian system is a
pure virtual package; several packages provide "mail-transport-agent",
but there is no package named "mail-transport-agent".</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>Single virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages with only
one package providing a particular virtual package. For example, in the
- Debian GNU/Linux system, "X11-text-viewer" is a virtual package, but
+ Debian system, "X11-text-viewer" is a virtual package, but
only one package, xless, provides "X11-text-viewer".</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>Mixed virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages that either
provide a particular virtual package or have the virtual package name
- as the package name. For instance, in the Debian GNU/Linux system,
+ as the package name. For instance, in the Debian system,
"debconf" is both an actual package, and provided by the debconf-tiny
package.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions
found in the cache; this value is therefore at least equal to the
- number of total package names. If more than one distribution (both
- "stable" and "unstable", for instance), is being accessed, this value
+ number of total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed
+ (for instance, "stable" and "unstable"), this value
can be considerably larger than the number of total package names.</para>
</listitem>
<varlistentry><term><option>showsrc</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>showsrc</literal> displays all the source package records that match
the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all
- records that declare the name to be a Binary.</para></listitem>
+ records that declare the name to be a binary package.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term>
<varlistentry><term><option>search</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-regex;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available package
- lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle><command>regex</command></refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see ®ex;.
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, including virtual package
set the <literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</literal> option.</para>
<para>The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes,
- pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds,
+ pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds,
missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped
- [leaf packages], blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para>
+ (leaf packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para>
<para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</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 and depends. Causes only Depends and
+ <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with <literal>unmet</literal>
+ and <literal>depends</literal>. Causes only Depends and
Pre-Depends relations to be printed.
Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Important</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>Print full records for all available versions. This is the
default; to turn it off, use <option>--no-all-versions</option>.
If <option>--no-all-versions</option> is specified, only the candidate version
- will displayed (the one which would be selected for installation).
+ will be displayed (the one which would be selected for installation).
This option is only applicable to the <literal>show</literal> command.
Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::AllVersions</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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