X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/dabb215cb8c4b074d286737da523d8ef14381468..0d33183f0f6da97984bbc81dfe6d88014f6489ac:/doc/apt-get.8.xml diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml index cc4e82255..a3bfc331c 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ %aptverbatiment; + +%aptvendor; ]> @@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ Description apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "back-end" to other tools using the APT - library. Several "front-end" interfaces exist, such as &dselect;, + library. Several "front-end" interfaces exist, such as &aptitude;, &synaptic; and &wajig;. Unless the , or option is given, one of the @@ -215,10 +217,7 @@ clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from &cachedir;/archives/ and - &cachedir;/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a - &dselect; method, clean is run automatically. - Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean - from time to time to free up disk space. + &cachedir;/archives/partial/. @@ -282,7 +281,7 @@ running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention - (which usually means using &dselect; or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of + (which usually means using dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together with may produce an error in some situations. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken. @@ -372,7 +371,18 @@ by apt-get source --compile and how cross-builddependencies are satisfied. By default is it not set which means that the host architecture is the same as the build architecture (which is defined by APT::Architecture). - Configuration Item: APT::Get::Host-Architecture + Configuration Item: APT::Get::Host-Architecture. + + + + + + This option controls the activated build profiles for which + a source package is built by apt-get source --compile and + how build dependencies are satisfied. By default no build profile is active. + More than one build profile can be activated at a time by concatenating them + with a comma. + Configuration Item: APT::Build-Profiles. @@ -389,6 +399,18 @@ Configuration Item: APT::Ignore-Hold. + + Allow installing new packages when used in + conjunction with upgrade. This is useful if + the update of a installed package requires new dependencies to be + installed. Instead of holding the package back upgrade + will upgrade the package and install the new dependencies. Note that + upgrade with this option will never remove packages, + only allow adding new ones. + Configuration Item: APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New. + + + Do not upgrade packages; when used in conjunction with install, no-upgrade will prevent packages on the command line @@ -508,7 +530,15 @@ This is useful for tools like pbuilder. Configuration Item: APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated. - + + + Show user friendly progress information in the + terminal window when packages are installed, upgraded or + removed. For a machine parsable version of this data see + README.progress-reporting in the apt doc directory. + Configuration Item: Dpkg::Progress and Dpkg::Progress-Fancy. + + &apt-commonoptions; @@ -526,7 +556,7 @@ See Also - &apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &dselect;, &sources-list;, + &apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &sources-list;, &apt-conf;, &apt-config;, &apt-secure;, The APT User's guide in &guidesdir;, &apt-preferences;, the APT Howto.