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 install
- Install new 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
- clean - Erase downloaded archive files
- autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
- check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
- source - Dowdnload source archives
- download - Download the binary package into the current directory
- changelog - Download and display the changelog for the given package
