This document provides an overview of how to use the the APT package manager.
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
-For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file
-/usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.
+For more details, on Debian systems, see the file
+/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ requires another package to be installed at the same time to work properly.
For instance, mailcrypt is an emacs extension that aids in encrypting email
-with GPG. Without GPGP installed mail-crypt is useless, so mailcrypt has a
+with GPG. Without GPGP installed mailcrypt is useless, so mailcrypt has a
simple dependency on GPG. Also, because it is an emacs extension it has a
simple dependency on emacs, without emacs it is completely useless.
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ available. This is done with apt-get update. For instance,
# apt-get update
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/binary-i386/ Packages
-Get http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages
+Get http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/contrib Packages
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
@@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ the dselect package selection GUI. dselect is used to
select the packages to be installed or removed and APT actually installs them.
-To enable the APT method you need to to select [A]ccess in dselect
+To enable the APT method you need to select [A]ccess in dselect
and then choose the APT method. You will be prompted for a set of
Sources which are places to fetch archives from. These can be remote
-Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CDROMs. Each source can provide
+Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CD-ROMs. Each source can provide
a fragment of the total Debian archive, APT will automatically combine them
-to form a complete set of packages. If you have a CDROM then it is a good idea
+to form a complete set of packages. If you have a CD-ROM then it is a good idea
to specify it first and then specify a mirror so that you have access to
-the latest bug fixes. APT will automatically use packages on your CDROM before
+the latest bug fixes. APT will automatically use packages on your CD-ROM before
downloading from the Internet.
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ get.
Please give the distribution tag to get or a path to the
package file ending in a /. The distribution
- tags are typically something like: stable unstable frozen non-US
+ tags are typically something like: stable unstable testing non-US
Distribution [stable]:
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ prompt until you have specified all that you want.
Before starting to use dselect it is necessary to update the
-available list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a super-set of
+available list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a superset of
apt-get update that makes the fetched information available to
dselect. [U]pdate must be performed even if apt-get update
has been run before.
@@ -482,11 +482,11 @@ status messages.
# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US/ Packages
-Get:2 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages
-Hit http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/main Packages
+Get:2 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/contrib Packages
+Hit http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/main Packages
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/binary-i386/ Packages
-Get:5 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages
-11% [5 frozen/non-free `Waiting for file' 0/32.1k 0%] 2203b/s 1m52s
+Get:5 http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/ testing/non-free Packages
+11% [5 testing/non-free `Waiting for file' 0/32.1k 0%] 2203b/s 1m52s