.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 1998 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>. .\" .\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, .\" or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but .\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public .\" License along with APT; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA .\" 02111-1307 USA .TH apt 8 "16 June 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux" .SH NAME apt \- Advanced Package Tool .SH SYNOPSIS .B apt .SH DESCRIPTION APT is a management system for software packages. For normal day to day package management there are several frontends available, like .BR aptitude (8) for the command line or .BR synaptic (8)for X-Windows. Some options are only implemented in .BR apt-get (8) though. .SH OPTIONS None. .SH FILES None. .SH SEE ALSO .BR apt-cache (8), .BR apt-get (8), .BR apt.conf (5), .BR sources.list (5), .BR apt-secure (8) .SH DIAGNOSTICS apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error. .SH BUGS This manpage isn't even started. .PP See <http://bugs.debian.org/apt>. If you wish to report a bug in .BR apt , please see .I /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the .BR reportbug (1) command. .SH AUTHOR apt was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.