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apt-get
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$ sudo apt-get -h
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get is a command line interface for retrieval of packages
and information about them from authenticated sources and
for installation, upgrade and removal of packages together
with their dependencies.
Most used commands:
update - Retrieve new lists of packages
upgrade - Perform an upgrade
install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
reinstall - Reinstall packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
remove - Remove packages
purge - Remove packages and config files
autoremove - Remove automatically all unused packages
dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
satisfy - Satisfy dependency strings
clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
source - Download source archives
download - Download the binary package into the current directory
changelog - Download and display the changelog for the given package
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Manage packages
Install package
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install PACKAGE
Upgrade all
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Remove package
Uninstall package.
$ sudo apt-get remove PACKAGE
Uninstall and remove configs.
$ sudo apt-get purge PACKAGE
Remove all packages which were subdependencies before and are no longer needed.
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Cache
Delete cached archive files. You can also use --dry-run
to see paths that would be deleted.
$ sudo apt-get clean
Only delete archive files which cannot be downloaded anymore.
$ sudo apt-get autoclean