Manual for apt

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 08:17:38 UTC 2016


On 3 September 2016 at 09:01, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> where do I find an English and a German manual for apt?
>
> Packages installed by either apt "full-upgrade" or "install", e.g.
>
>   # apt -o APT::Color="0" full-upgrade
>   # apt install alpine-pico
>
> are not stored in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
> As wanted apt-get "dist-upgrade" and "install" stores the packages in
> the cache.

The install history is in /var/log/apt/history.log, but is that not
also the case for apt-get?

I agree with your point that documentation for apt is lacking.  For
example man apt does not even show autoremove as an option.

Colin




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