apt: Manpages are useless

[Thilo Six]

Johanna Moshtar wrote the following on 06.05.2008 19:59

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43.3ubuntu3
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> The manpage for apt is useless, by its own admission. Contrary to 
> popular belief documentation should not be an afterthought or just 
> plainly ignored.

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$ LANG=C apropos apt | grep ^apt
apt (8)              - Advanced Package Tool
apt-cache (8)        - APT package handling utility - cache manipulator
apt-cdrom (8)        - APT CDROM management utility
apt-config (8)       - APT Configuration Query program
apt-extracttemplates (1) - Utility to extract DebConf config and templates fr...
apt-file (1)         - APT package searching utility - command-line interface
apt-ftparchive (1)   - Utility to generate index files
apt-get (8)          - APT package handling utility - command-line interface
apt-howto (1)        - apt-howto guide
apt-key (8)          - APT key management utility
apt-mark (8)         - Utility to sort package index files
apt-secure (8)       - Archive authentication support for APT
apt-show-versions (1p) - Lists available package versions with distribution
apt-sortpkgs (1)     - Utility to sort package index files
apt.conf (5)         - Configuration file for APT
apt_preferences (5)  - Preference control file for APT
aptitude (8)         - high-level interface to the package manager
aptitude-create-state-bundle (1) - bundle the current aptitude state
aptitude-run-state-bundle (1) - unpack an aptitude state bundle and invoke ap...
AptPkg (3pm)         - interface to libapt-pkg
AptPkg::Cache (3pm)  - APT package cache interface
AptPkg::Config (3pm) - APT configuration interface
AptPkg::hash (3pm)   - a helper class for implementing tied hashes
AptPkg::PkgRecords (3pm) - APT package description class
AptPkg::Policy (3pm) - APT package version policy class
AptPkg::Source (3pm) - APT source package interface
AptPkg::System (3pm) - APT system abstraction class
AptPkg::Version (3pm) - APT package versioning class



$ aptitude search apt
for more info.

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bye Thilo

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