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+<!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;
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
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- <date>04 February 2011</date>
+ <date>2012-05-21T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refpurpose>query the APT cache</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
- <!-- Arguments -->
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>apt-cache</command>
- <arg><option>-hvsn</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-o=<replaceable>config string</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg><option>-c=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></arg>
- <group choice="req">
- <arg>gencaches</arg>
- <arg>showpkg <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
- <arg>showsrc <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
- <arg>stats</arg>
- <arg>dump</arg>
- <arg>dumpavail</arg>
- <arg>unmet</arg>
- <arg>search <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>regex</replaceable></arg></arg>
- <arg>show <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
- <arg>depends <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
- <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>
- </cmdsynopsis>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
+ &synopsis-command-apt-cache;
+
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para><command>apt-cache</command> performs a variety of operations on APT's package
cache. <command>apt-cache</command> does not manipulate the state of the system
commands below must be present.</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>gencaches</term>
- <listitem><para><literal>gencaches</literal> performs the same operation as
- <command>apt-get check</command>. It builds the source and package caches from
- the sources in &sources-list; and from
- <filename>/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>.</para></listitem>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>gencaches</option></term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>gencaches</literal> creates APT's package cache. This is done
+ implicitly by all commands needing this cache if it is missing or outdated.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>showpkg <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>showpkg</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>showpkg</literal> displays information about the packages listed on the
command line. Remaining arguments are package names. The available
versions and reverse dependencies of each package listed are listed, as
is best to consult the apt source code.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>
stats</term><listitem><para><literal>stats</literal> displays some statistics about the cache.
+ <varlistentry><term>
<option>stats</option></term><listitem><para><literal>stats</literal> displays some statistics about the cache.
No further arguments are expected. Statistics reported are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><literal>Total package names</literal> is the number of package names found
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>showsrc <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <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>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>dump</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>dump</literal> shows a short listing of every package in the cache. It is
primarily for debugging.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>dumpavail</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>dumpavail</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>dumpavail</literal> prints out an available list to stdout. This is
suitable for use with &dpkg; and is used by the &dselect; method.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>unmet</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>unmet</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>unmet</literal> displays a summary of all unmet dependencies in the
package cache.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>show <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>show</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>show</literal> performs a function similar to
<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>
+ <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
are and'ed together.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>depends <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>depends</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>depends</literal> shows a listing of each dependency a package has
and all the possible other packages that can fulfill that dependency.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>rdepends <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>rdepends</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<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>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>pkgnames</option> <optional><replaceable>&synopsis-prefix;</replaceable></optional></term>
<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
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>dotty <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>dotty</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>dotty</literal> takes a list of packages on the command line and
generates output suitable for use by dotty from the
<ulink url="http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/">GraphViz</ulink>
<para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>xvcg <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>xvcg</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></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>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>policy</option> <optional><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</optional></term>
<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>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>madison <replaceable>/[ pkg(s) ]</replaceable></term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>madison</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>apt-cache</literal>'s <literal>madison</literal> command attempts to mimic
the output format and a subset of the functionality of the Debian
archive management tool, <literal>madison</literal>. It displays
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