💾 Archived View for freeshell.de › tldr › aptitude.gmi captured on 2023-09-28 at 16:11:33. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

View Raw

More Information

⬅️ Previous capture (2022-04-28)

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

aptitude

Debian and Ubuntu package management utility.

More information.

• Synchronize list of packages and versions available. This should be run first, before running subsequent aptitude commands:

aptitude update

• Install a new package and its dependencies:

aptitude install {package}

• Search for a package:

aptitude search {package}

• Search for an installed package (`?installed` is an aptitude search term):

aptitude search '?installed({package})'

• Remove a package and all packages depending on it:

aptitude remove {package}

• Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions:

aptitude upgrade

• Upgrade installed packages (like `aptitude upgrade`) including removing obsolete packages and installing additional packages to meet new package dependencies:

aptitude full-upgrade

• Put an installed package on hold to prevent it from being automatically upgraded:

aptitude hold '?installed({package})'

Copyright © 2014—present the tldr-pages team and contributors.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY).

CC-BY