as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
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These include:
- * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
- from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
- removal of packages together with their dependencies
- * apt-cache for querying available information about installed
- as well as installable packages
- * apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
- * apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
- * apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys
+ * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
+ from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
+ removal of packages together with their dependencies
+ * apt-cache for querying available information about installed
+ as well as installable packages
+ * apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
+ * apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
+ * apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys
Package: libapt-pkg4.10
Architecture: any
Higher-level package managers can depend upon this library.
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This includes:
- * retrieval of information about packages from multiple sources
- * retrieval of packages and all dependent packages
- needed to satisfy a request either through an internal
- solver or by interfacing with an external one
- * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data
- * installation and removal of packages in the system
- * providing different transports to retrieve data over cdrom, ftp,
- http, rsh as well as an interface to add more transports like
- https (apt-transport-https) and debtorrent (apt-transport-debtorrent).
+ * retrieval of information about packages from multiple sources
+ * retrieval of packages and all dependent packages
+ needed to satisfy a request either through an internal
+ solver or by interfacing with an external one
+ * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data
+ * installation and removal of packages in the system
+ * providing different transports to retrieve data over cdrom, ftp,
+ http, rsh as well as an interface to add more transports like
+ https (apt-transport-https) and debtorrent (apt-transport-debtorrent).
Package: libapt-inst1.2
Architecture: any
This package contains some less used commandline utilities related
to package managment with APT.
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- * apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration
- questions before installation.
- * apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files
- needed to publish an archive of debian packages
- * apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer.
+ * apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration
+ questions before installation.
+ * apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files
+ needed to publish an archive of debian packages
+ * apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer.
Package: apt-transport-https
Architecture: any
libapt-pkg library can access metadata and packages available in sources
accessable over https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure).
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- This transports supports server as well as client authenification
+ This transport supports server as well as client authenification
with certificates.