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-rw-r--r--doc/apt-cache.8.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml5
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-get.8.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/apt.conf.5.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/apt_preferences.5.xml8
5 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index 9c6c64dac..431ef8704 100644
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
<term><option>--no-replaces</option></term>
<term><option>--no-enhances</option></term>
<listitem><para>Per default the <literal>depends</literal> and
- <literal>rdepends</literal> print all dependencies. This can be twicked with
+ <literal>rdepends</literal> print all dependencies. This can be tweaked with
these flags which will omit the specified dependency type.
Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Show<replaceable>DependencyType</replaceable></literal>
e.g. <literal>APT::Cache::ShowRecommends</literal>.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
index 8e5df1f36..b08ebe80f 100644
--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
@@ -532,8 +532,9 @@ for i in Sections do
index files will not have the checksum fields where possible.
Configuration Items: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> and
<literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Index</replaceable>::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> where
- <literal>Index</literal> can be <literal>Packages</literal>, <literal>Sources</literal> or <literal>Release</literal> and
- <literal>Checksum</literal> can be <literal>MD5</literal>, <literal>SHA1</literal> or <literal>SHA256</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ <literal><replaceable>Index</replaceable></literal> can be <literal>Packages</literal>, <literal>Sources</literal> or
+ <literal>Release</literal> and <literal><replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> can be <literal>MD5</literal>,
+ <literal>SHA1</literal> or <literal>SHA256</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>-d</option></term><term><option>--db</option></term>
diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
index 18f26e569..11b53e5e7 100644
--- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
<varlistentry><term>download</term>
<listitem><para><literal>download</literal> will download the given
- binary package into the current directoy.
+ binary package into the current directory.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 477507598..02de89f3b 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
<listitem><para>the file specified by the <envar>APT_CONFIG</envar>
environment variable (if any)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>all files in <literal>Dir::Etc::Parts</literal> in
- alphanumeric ascending order which have no or "<literal>conf</literal>"
+ alphanumeric ascending order which have either no or "<literal>conf</literal>"
as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric,
hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters.
Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
@@ -441,13 +441,13 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
It is not needed to add <literal>bz2</literal> explicit to the list as it will be added automatic.</para>
<para>Note that at run time the <literal>Dir::Bin::<replaceable>Methodname</replaceable></literal> will
be checked: If this setting exists the method will only be used if this file exists, e.g. for
- the bzip2 method (the inbuilt) setting is <literallayout>Dir::Bin::bzip2 "/bin/bzip2";</literallayout>
+ the bzip2 method (the inbuilt) setting is: <literallayout>Dir::Bin::bzip2 "/bin/bzip2";</literallayout>
Note also that list entries specified on the command line will be added at the end of the list
specified in the configuration files, but before the default entries. To prefer a type in this case
over the ones specified in the configuration files you can set the option direct - not in list style.
This will not override the defined list, it will only prefix the list with this type.</para>
<para>The special type <literal>uncompressed</literal> can be used to give uncompressed files a
- preference, but note that most archives doesn't provide uncompressed files so this is mostly only
+ preference, but note that most archives don't provide uncompressed files so this is mostly only
useable for local mirrors.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 55504f3e5..f08f92b94 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ You have been warned.</para>
<para>Note that the files in the <filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d</filename>
directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the
-following naming convention: The files have no or "<literal>pref</literal>"
-as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-),
+following naming convention: The files have either no or "<literal>pref</literal>"
+as filename extension and only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-),
underscore (_) and period (.) characters.
Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ APT also supports pinning by glob() expressions and regular
expressions surrounded by /. For example, the following
example assigns the priority 500 to all packages from
experimental where the name starts with gnome (as a glob()-like
-expression or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended regular
+expression) or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended regular
expression surrounded by slashes).
</para>
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Pin-Priority: 500
<para>
The rule for those expressions is that they can occur anywhere
-where a string can occur. Those, the following pin assigns the
+where a string can occur. Thus, the following pin assigns the
priority 990 to all packages from a release starting with karmic.
</para>