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@@ -9,19 +9,20 @@ package managers can depend upon. Included tools are: -* apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them +* **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 +* **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-extracttemplates to be used by debconf to prompt for configuration - questions before installation. -* apt-ftparchive creates Packages and other index files +* **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-extracttemplates** to be used by debconf to prompt for configuration + questions before installation +* **apt-ftparchive** creates Packages and other index files needed to publish an archive of debian packages -* apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer. +* **apt-sortpkgs** is a Packages/Sources file normalizer +* **apt** is a high-level commandline interface for better interactive usage The libraries libapt-pkg and libapt-inst are also maintained as part of this project, alongside various additional binaries like the acquire-methods used by them. |