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# APT User's Guide

## Abstract

This document provides an overview of how to use the the APT package manager.

## Copyright Notice

Copyright © Jason Gunthorpe, 1998.

"APT" and this document are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published 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.

## Contents

- 1 General
  - 1.1 Anatomy of the Package System
- 2 apt-get
- 3 DSelect
- 4 The Interface
  - 4.1 Startup
  - 4.2 The Status Report
  - 4.3 The Status Display
  - 4.4 Dpkg

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APT User's Guide