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1.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 1998 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>.
2.\"
3.\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
4.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
5.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
6.\" or (at your option) any later version.
7.\"
8.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
9.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
10.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
11.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
12.\"
13.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
14.\" License along with APT; if not, write to the Free Software
15.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
16.\" 02111-1307 USA
17.TH apt 8 "16 June 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux"
18.SH NAME
19apt \- Advanced Package Tool
20.SH SYNOPSIS
21.B apt
22.SH DESCRIPTION
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23APT is a management system for software packages. For normal day to day
24package management there are several frontends available, like
25.BR aptitude (8)
26for the command line or
27.BR synaptic (8)for X-Windows. Some options are only implemented in
28.BR apt-get (8) though.
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29.SH OPTIONS
30None.
31.SH FILES
32None.
33.SH SEE ALSO
34.BR apt-cache (8),
35.BR apt-get (8),
b8d8c141 36.BR apt.conf (5),
65d71b38 37.BR sources.list (5),
14127f18 38.BR apt-secure (8)
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39.SH DIAGNOSTICS
40apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
41.SH BUGS
42This manpage isn't even started.
43.PP
09774285 44See <http://bugs.debian.org/apt>. If you wish to report a
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45bug in
46.BR apt ,
47please see
09774285 48.I /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt
578bfd0a 49or the
8262bcd0 50.BR reportbug (1)
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51command.
52.SH AUTHOR
53apt was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.