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diff --git a/doc/guide.sgml b/doc/guide.sgml index 67efbc93f..1d6923aad 100644 --- a/doc/guide.sgml +++ b/doc/guide.sgml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <title>APT User's Guide</title> <author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author> -<version>$Id: guide.sgml,v 1.2 1998/11/23 01:15:59 jgg Exp $</version> +<version>$Id: guide.sgml,v 1.3 2001/02/20 07:03:17 jgg Exp $</version> <abstract> This document provides an overview of how to use the the APT package manager. @@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ of a simple dependency. The meaning of a simple dependency is that a package requires another package to be installed at the same time to work properly. <p> -For instance, mail-crypt is an emacs extension that aids in encrypting email -with PGP. Without PGP installed mail-crypt is useless, so mail-crypt has a -simple dependency on PGP. Also, because it is an emacs extension it has a +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 +simple dependency on GPG. Also, because it is an emacs extension it has a simple dependency on emacs, without emacs it is completely useless. <p> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ how much is left to do. <p> Before all operations, except update, APT performs a number of actions to prepare its internal state. It also does some checks of the systems state. -At any time these operations can be performed by running <tt>apt-get chec</> +At any time these operations can be performed by running <tt>apt-get check</>. <p> <example> # apt-get check @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ is run. If some of the package files are not found then they will be ignored and a warning will be printed when apt-get exits. <p> -The final operation performs a detailed analysis of the systems dependencies. +The final operation performs a detailed analysis of the system's dependencies. It checks every dependency of every installed or unpacked package and considers if it is ok. Should this find a problem then a report will be printed out and <prgn>apt-get</> will refuse to run. @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ problem is also included. <p> There are two ways a system can get into a broken state like this. The -first is caused by <prgn>dpkg missing</> some subtle relationships between +first is caused by <prgn>dpkg</> missing some subtle relationships between packages when performing upgrades. <footnote>APT however considers all known dependencies and attempts to prevent broken packages</footnote>. The second is if a package installation fails during an operation. In this situation a @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ package may have been unpacked without its dependents being installed. <p> The second situation is much less serious than the first because APT places certain assurances on the order that packages are installed. In both cases -supplying the <tt>-f</> option to <prgn>atp-get</> will cause APT to deduce a +supplying the <tt>-f</> option to <prgn>apt-get</> will cause APT to deduce a possible solution to the problem and then continue on. The APT <prgn>dselect</> method always supplies the <tt>-f</> option to allow for easy continuation of failed maintainer scripts. @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ to upgrade, they are similar to the previous examples. <sect>The Status Display <p> During the download of archives and package files APT prints out a series of -status messages, +status messages. <p> <example> @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ inaccuracies. <p> The next section of the status line is repeated once for each dowload thread -and indicates the operation being performed and some usefull information +and indicates the operation being performed and some useful information about what is happening. Sometimes this section will simply read <em>Forking</> which means the OS is loading the download module. The first word after the [ is the fetch number as shown on the history lines. The next word @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ Inside of the single quote is an informative string indicating the progress of the negotiation phase of the download. Typically it progresses from <em>Connecting</> to <em>Waiting for file</> to <em>Downloading</> or <em>Resuming</>. The final value is the number of bytes downloaded from the -remote site. Once the download beings this is represented as <tt>102/10.2k</> +remote site. Once the download begings this is represented as <tt>102/10.2k</> indicating that 102 bytes have been fetched and 10.2 kilobytes is expected. The total size is always shown in 4 figure notation to preserve space. After the size display is a percent meter for the file itself. @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ status display. <p> APT uses <prgn>dpkg</> for installing the archives and will switch over to the <prgn>dpkg</> interface once downloading is completed. -<prgn>dpkg</> will also as a number of questions as it processes the packages +<prgn>dpkg</> will also ask a number of questions as it processes the packages and the packages themselves may also ask several questions. Before each question there is usually a description of what it is asking and the questions are too varied to discuss completely here. |