NAME

       cdist-type__package_apt - Manage packages with apt-get

DESCRIPTION

       apt-get is usually used on Debian and variants (like Ubuntu) to manage packages.

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

       None

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

       name   If supplied, use the name and not the object id as the package name.

       state  Either "present" or "absent", defaults to "present"

       target-release
              Passed  on  to apt-get install, see apt-get(8).  Essentially allows you to retrieve
              packages from a different release

EXAMPLES

          # Ensure zsh in installed
          __package_apt zsh --state present

          # In case you only want *a* webserver, but don't care which one
          __package_apt webserver --state present --name nginx

          # Remove obsolete package
          __package_apt puppet --state absent

SEE ALSO

       cdist-type__package(7)

AUTHORS

       Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under
       the  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
       either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.