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COMMAND-LINE ACTIONS
(-) aptitude
install
Install one or more packages. The packages should be listed after
the install command; if a package name contains a tilde character
(~) or a question mark (?), it will be treated as a search pattern
and every package matching the pattern will be installed (see the
section Search Patterns in the aptitude reference manual).
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aptitude remove foo bar
remove, purge, hold, unhold, keep, reinstall
These commands are the same as install, but apply the named action
to all packages given on the command line for which it is not
overridden. The difference between hold and keep is that hold will
cause a package to be ignored by future safe-upgrade or
full-upgrade commands, while keep merely cancels any scheduled
actions on the package. unhold will allow a package to be upgraded
by future safe-upgrade or full-upgrade commands, without otherwise
altering its state.
aptitude remove '~ndeity'deity
markauto, unmarkauto
installaptitude markauto '~slibs'libs
aptitude
build-depends, build-dep
Satisfy the build-dependencies of a package. Each package name may
be a source package, in which case the build dependencies of that
source package are installed; otherwise, binary packages are found
in the same way as for the install command, and the
build-dependencies of the source packages that build those binary
packages are satisfied.
If the command-line parameter --arch-only is present, only
architecture-dependent build dependencies (i.e., not
Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Conflicts-Indep) will be obeyed.
forbid-version
aptitude aptitude aptitude aptitude forbid-version
vim=1.2.3.broken-4 =<>
install
update
apt (apt-get update)
safe-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version. Installed
packages will not be removed unless they are unused (see the
section Managing Automatically Installed Packages in the aptitude
reference manual). Packages which are not currently installed may
be installed to resolve dependencies unless the --no-new-installs
command-line option is supplied.
If no <package>s are listed on the command line, aptitude will
attempt to upgrade every package that can be upgraded. Otherwise,
aptitude will attempt to upgrade only the packages which it is
instructed to upgrade. The <package>s can be extended with suffixes
in the same manner as arguments to aptitude install, so you can
also give additional instructions to aptitude here; for instance,
aptitude safe-upgrade bash dash- will attempt to upgrade the bash
package and remove the dash package.
It is sometimes necessary to remove one package in order to upgrade
another; this command is not able to upgrade packages in such
situations. Use the full-upgrade command to upgrade as many
packages as possible.
full-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version, removing
or installing packages as necessary. This command is less
conservative than safe-upgrade and thus more likely to perform
unwanted actions. However, it is capable of upgrading packages that
safe-upgrade cannot upgrade.
If no <package>s are listed on the command line, aptitude will
attempt to upgrade every package that can be upgraded. Otherwise,
aptitude will attempt to upgrade only the packages which it is
instructed to upgrade. The <package>s can be extended with suffixes
in the same manner as arguments to aptitude install, so you can
also give additional instructions to aptitude here; for instance,
aptitude full-upgrade bash dash- will attempt to upgrade the bash
package and remove the dash package.
This command was originally named dist-upgrade for
historical reasons, and aptitude still recognizes
dist-upgrade as a synonym for full-upgrade.
keep-all
forget-new
(f)
search
Searches for packages matching one of the patterns supplied on the
command line. All packages which match any of the given patterns
will be displayed; for instance, aptitude search '~N' edit will
list all new packages and all packages whose name contains edit.
For more information on search patterns, see the section Search
Patterns in the aptitude reference manual.
In the example above, aptitude search '~N' edit has two
arguments after search and thus is searching for two
patterns: ~N and edit. As described in the search pattern
reference, a single pattern composed of two sub-patterns
separated by a space (such as ~N edit) matches only if both
patterns match. Thus, the command aptitude search '~N edit'
will only show new packages whose name contains edit.
-F aptitude search
i apt - Advanced front-end for dpkg
pi apt-build - frontend to apt to build, optimize and in
cp apt-file - APT package searching utility -- command-
ihA raptor-utils - Raptor RDF Parser utilities
1 p c i v 2 () i d p 3 A
For a complete list of the possible state and action flags, see the
section Accessing Package Information in the aptitude reference
guide. To customize the output of search, see the command-line
options -F and --sort.
show
Displays detailed information about one or more packages, listed
following the search command. If a package name contains a tilde
character (~) or a question mark (?), it will be treated as a
search pattern and all matching packages will be displayed (see the
section Search Patterns in the aptitude reference manual).
1 ( -v 1 )(aptitude install)
You can display information about a different version of the
package by appending =<version> to the package name; you can
display the version from a particular archive or release by
appending /<archive> or /<release> to the package name: for
instance, /unstable or /sid. If either of these is present, then
only the version you request will be displayed, regardless of the
verbosity level.
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versions
Displays the versions of the packages listed on the command-line.
$ aptitude versions wesnoth
p 1:1.4.5-1 100
p 1:1.6.5-1 unstable 500
p 1:1.7.14-1 experimental 1
Each version is listed on a separate line. The leftmost three
characters indicate the current state, planned state (if any), and
whether the package was automatically installed; for more
information on their meanings, see the documentation of aptitude
search. To the right of the version number you can find the
releases from which the version is available, and the pin priority
of the version.
If a package name contains a tilde character (~) or a question mark
(?), it will be treated as a search pattern and all matching
versions will be displayed (see the section Search Patterns in the
aptitude reference manual). This means that, for instance, aptitude
versions '~i' will display all the versions that are currently
installed on the system and nothing else, not even other versions
of the same packages.
$ aptitude versions '~nexim4-daemon-light'
Package exim4-daemon-light:
i 4.71-3 100
p 4.71-4 unstable 500
Package exim4-daemon-light-dbg:
p 4.71-4 unstable 500
If the input is a search pattern, or if more than one package's
versions are to be displayed, aptitude will automatically group the
output by package, as shown above. You can disable this via
--group-by=none, in which case aptitude will display a single list
of all the versions that were found and automatically include the
package name in each output line:
$ aptitude versions --group-by=none '~nexim4-daemon-light'
i exim4-daemon-light 4.71-3 100
p exim4-daemon-light 4.71-4 unstable 500
p exim4-daemon-light-dbg 4.71-4 unstable 500
To disable the package name, pass --show-package-names=never:
$ aptitude versions --show-package-names=never --group-by=none '~nexim4-daemon-light'
i 4.71-3 100
p 4.71-4 unstable 500
p 4.71-4 unstable 500
In addition to the above options, the information printed for each
version can be controlled by the command-line option -F. The order
in which versions are displayed can be controlled by the
command-line option --sort. To prevent aptitude from formatting the
output into columns, use --disable-columns.
add-user-tag, remove-user-tag
Adds a user tag to or removes a user tag from the selected group of
packages. If a package name contains a tilde (~) or question mark
(?), it is treated as a search pattern and the tag is added to or
removed from all the packages that match the pattern (see the
section Search Patterns in the aptitude reference manual).
User tags are arbitrary strings associated with a package. They can
be used with the ?user-tag(<tag>) search term, which will select
all the packages that have a user tag matching <tag>.
why, why-not
Explains the reason that a particular package should or cannot be
installed on the system.
This command searches for packages that require or conflict with
the given package. It displays a sequence of dependencies leading
to the target package, along with a note indicating the installed
state of each package in the dependency chain:
$ aptitude why kdepim
i nautilus-data Recommends nautilus
i A nautilus Recommends desktop-base (>= 0.2)
i A desktop-base Suggests gnome | kde | xfce4 | wmaker
p kde Depends kdepim (>= 4:3.4.3)
The command why finds a dependency chain that installs the package
named on the command line, as above. Note that the dependency that
aptitude produced in this case is only a suggestion. This is
because no package currently installed on this computer depends on
or recommends the kdepim package; if a stronger dependency were
available, aptitude would have displayed it.
In contrast, why-not finds a dependency chain leading to a conflict
with the target package:
$ aptitude why-not textopo
i ocaml-core Depends ocamlweb
i A ocamlweb Depends tetex-extra | texlive-latex-extra
i A texlive-latex-extra Conflicts textopo
If one or more <pattern>s are present, then aptitude will begin its
search at these patterns; that is, the first package in the chain
it prints will be a package matching the pattern in question. The
patterns are considered to be package names unless they contain a
tilde character (~) or a question mark (?), in which case they are
treated as search patterns (see the section Search Patterns in the
aptitude reference manual).
If no patterns are present, then aptitude will search for
dependency chains beginning at manually installed packages. This
effectively shows the packages that have caused or would cause a
given package to be installed.
aptitude why does not perform full dependency resolution; it
only displays direct relationships between packages. For
instance, if A requires B, C requires D, and B and C
conflict, aptitude why-not D will not produce the answer A
depends on B, B conflicts with C, and D depends on C.
By default aptitude outputs only the most installed, strongest,
tightest, shortest dependency chain. That is, it looks for a chain
that only contains packages which are installed or will be
installed; it looks for the strongest possible dependencies under
that restriction; it looks for chains that avoid ORed dependencies
and Provides; and it looks for the shortest dependency chain
meeting those criteria. These rules are progressively weakened
until a match is found.
If the verbosity level is 1 or more, then all the explanations
aptitude can find will be displayed, in inverse order of relevance.
If the verbosity level is 2 or more, a truly excessive amount of
debugging information will be printed to standard output.
This command returns 0 if successful, 1 if no explanation could be
constructed, and -1 if an error occured.
clean
.deb ( /var/cache/apt/archives)
autoclean
changelog
Debian
By default, the changelog for the version which would be installed
with aptitude install is downloaded. You can select a particular
version of a package by appending =<version> to the package name;
you can select the version from a particular archive or release by
appending /<archive> or /<release> to the package name (for
instance, /unstable or /sid).
download
Downloads the .deb file for the given package to the current
directory. If a package name contains a tilde character (~) or a
question mark (?), it will be treated as a search pattern and all
the matching packages will be downloaded (see the section Search
Patterns in the aptitude reference manual).
By default, the version which would be installed with aptitude
install is downloaded. You can select a particular version of a
package by appending =<version> to the package name; you can select
the version from a particular archive or release by appending
/<archive> or /<release> to the package name (for instance:
/unstable or /sid).
extract-cache-subset
Copy the apt configuration directory (/etc/apt) and a subset of the
package database to the specified directory. If no packages are
listed, the entire package database is copied; otherwise only the
entries corresponding to the named packages are copied. Each
package name may be a search pattern, and all the packages matching
that pattern will be selected (see the section Search Patterns in
the aptitude reference manual). Any existing package database files
in the output directory will be overwritten.
Dependencies in binary package stanzas will be rewritten to remove
references to packages not in the selected set.
help
--add-user-tag <tag>
For full-upgrade, safe-upgrade, forbid-version, hold, install,
keep-all, markauto, unmarkauto, purge, reinstall, remove, unhold,
and unmarkauto: add the user tag <tag> to all packages that are
installed, removed, or upgraded by this command as if with the
add-user-tag command.
--add-user-tag-to <tag>,<pattern>
For full-upgrade, safe-upgrade forbid-version, hold, install,
keep-all, markauto, unmarkauto, purge, reinstall, remove, unhold,
and unmarkauto: add the user tag <tag> to all packages that match
<pattern> as if with the add-user-tag command. The pattern is a
search pattern as described in the section Search Patterns in the
aptitude reference manual.
For instance, aptitude safe-upgrade --add-user-tag-to
"new-installs,?action(install)" will add the tag new-installs to
all the packages installed by the safe-upgrade command.
--allow-new-upgrades
When the safe resolver is being used (i.e., --safe-resolver was
passed or Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver is set to true), allow
the dependency resolver to install upgrades for packages regardless
of the value of Aptitude::Safe-Resolver::No-New-Upgrades.
--allow-new-installs
Allow the safe-upgrade command to install new packages; when the
safe resolver is being used (i.e., --safe-resolver was passed or
Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver is set to true), allow the
dependency resolver to install new packages. This option takes
effect regardless of the value of
Aptitude::Safe-Resolver::No-New-Installs.
--allow-untrusted
Install packages from untrusted sources without prompting. You
should only use this if you know what you are doing, as it could
easily compromise your system's security.
--disable-columns
This option causes aptitude search and aptitude version to output
their results without any special formatting. In particular:
normally aptitude will add whitespace or truncate search results in
an attempt to fit its results into vertical columns. With this
flag, each line will be formed by replacing any format escapes in
the format string with the correponding text; column widths will be
ignored.
For instance, the first few lines of output from aptitude search -F
'%p %V' --disable-columns libedataserver might be:
disksearch 1.2.1-3
hp-search-mac 0.1.3
libbsearch-ruby 1.5-5
libbsearch-ruby1.8 1.5-5
libclass-dbi-abstractsearch-perl 0.07-2
libdbix-fulltextsearch-perl 0.73-10
As in the above example, --disable-columns is often useful in
combination with a custom display format set using the command-line
option -F.
This corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::CmdLine::Disable-Columns.
-D, --show-deps
For commands that will install or remove packages (install,
full-upgrade, etc), show brief explanations of automatic
installations and removals.
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Deps
-d, --download-only
/var/cache/apt/archives
Aptitude::CmdLine::Download-Only
-F <>, --display-format <>
Specify the format which should be used to display output from the
search and version commands. For instance, passing %p %V %v for
<format> will display a package's name, followed by its currently
installed version and its available version (see the section
Customizing how packages are displayed in the aptitude reference
manual for more information).
The command-line option --disable-columns is often useful in
combination with -F.
For search, this corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::CmdLine::Package-Display-Format; for versions, this
corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::CmdLine::Version-Display-Format.
-f
Aptitude::CmdLine::Fix-Broken
--full-resolver
When package dependency problems are encountered, use the default
full resolver to solve them. Unlike the safe resolver activated by
--safe-resolver, the full resolver will happily remove packages to
fulfill dependencies. It can resolve more situations than the safe
algorithm, but its solutions are more likely to be undesirable.
This option can be used to force the use of the full resolver even
when Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver is true. The safe-upgrade
command never uses the full resolver and does not accept the
--full-resolver option.
--group-by <grouping-mode>
Control how the versions command groups its output. The following
values are recognized:
o archive to group packages by the archive they occur in
(stable, unstable, etc). If a package occurs in several
archives, it will be displayed in each of them.
o auto to group versions by their package unless there is
exactly one argument and it is not a search pattern.
o none to display all the versions in a single list without any
grouping.
o package to group versions by their package.
o source-package to group versions by their source package.
o source-version to group versions by their source package and
source version.
This corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::CmdLine::Versions-Group-By.
-h, --help
help
--log-file=<file>
If <file> is a nonempty string, log messages will be written to it,
except that if <file> is -, the messages will be written to
standard output instead. If this option appears multiple times, the
last occurrence is the one that will take effect.
This does not affect the log of installations that aptitude has
performed (/var/log/aptitude); the log messages written using this
configuration include internal program events, errors, and
debugging messages. See the command-line option --log-level to get
more control over what gets logged.
This corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::Logging::File.
--log-level=<level>, --log-level=<category>:<level>
--log-level=<level> causes aptitude to only log messages whose
level is <level> or higher. For instance, setting the log level to
error will cause only messages at the log levels error and fatal to
be displayed; all others will be hidden. Valid log levels (in
descending order) are off, fatal, error, warn, info, debug, and
trace. The default log level is warn.
--log-level=<category>:<level> causes messages in <category> to
only be logged if their level is <level> or higher.
--log-level may appear multiple times on the command line; the most
specific setting is the one that takes effect, so if you pass
--log-level=aptitude.resolver:fatal and
--log-level=aptitude.resolver.hints.match:trace, then messages in
aptitude.resolver.hints.parse will only be printed if their level
is fatal, but all messages in aptitude.resolver.hints.match will be
printed. If you set the level of the same category two or more
times, the last setting is the one that will take effect.
This does not affect the log of installations that aptitude has
performed (/var/log/aptitude); the log messages written using this
configuration include internal program events, errors, and
debugging messages. See the command-line option --log-file to
change where log messages go.
This corresponds to the configuration group
Aptitude::Logging::Levels.
--log-resolver
Set some standard log levels related to the resolver, to produce
logging output suitable for processing with automated tools. This
is equivalent to the command-line options
--log-level=aptitude.resolver.search:trace
--log-level=aptitude.resolver.search.tiers:info.
--no-new-installs
Prevent safe-upgrade from installing any new packages; when the
safe resolver is being used (i.e., --safe-resolver was passed or
Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver is set to true), forbid the
dependency resolver from installing new packages. This option takes
effect regardless of the value of
Aptitude::Safe-Resolver::No-New-Installs.
This mimics the historical behavior of apt-get upgrade.
This corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::CmdLine::Safe-Upgrade::No-New-Installs.
--no-new-upgrades
When the safe resolver is being used (i.e., --safe-resolver was
passed or Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver is set to true), allow
the dependency resolver to install new packages regardless of the
value of Aptitude::Safe-Resolver::No-New-Installs.
--no-show-resolver-actions
Do not display the actions performed by the safe resolver,
overriding any configuration option or earlier
--show-resolver-actions.
-O <>, --sort <>
Specify the order in which output from the search and versions
commands should be displayed. For instance, passing installsize for
<order> will list packages in order according to their size when
installed (see the section Customizing how packages are sorted in
the aptitude reference manual for more information).
The default sort order is name,version.
-o <>=<>
-o Aptitude::Log=/tmp/my-log aptitude /tmp/my-log aptitude
-P, --prompt
Always display a prompt before downloading, installing or removing
packages, even when no actions other than those explicitly
requested will be performed.
Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt
--purge-unused
If Aptitude::Delete-Unused is set to true (its default), then in
addition to removing each package that is no longer required by any
installed package, aptitude will also purge them, removing their
configuration files and perhaps other important data. For more
information about which packages are considered to be unused, see
the section Managing Automatically Installed Packages in the
aptitude reference manual. THIS OPTION CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO NOT
USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
This corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::Purge-Unused.
-q[=<n>], --quiet[=<n>]
apt-get aptitude -q -y
=<n> (/etc/apt/apt.conf )-q <n>
-R, --without-recommends
Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
~/.aptitude/config). Packages previously installed due to
recommendations will not be removed.
This corresponds to the pair of configuration options
Apt::Install-Recommends and Apt::AutoRemove::InstallRecommends.
-r, --with-recommends
(/etc/apt/apt.conf ~/.aptitude/config )
This corresponds to the configuration option
Apt::Install-Recommends
--remove-user-tag <tag>
For full-upgrade, safe-upgrade forbid-version, hold, install,
keep-all, markauto, unmarkauto, purge, reinstall, remove, unhold,
and unmarkauto: remove the user tag <tag> from all packages that
are installed, removed, or upgraded by this command as if with the
add-user-tag command.
--remove-user-tag-from <tag>,<pattern>
For full-upgrade, safe-upgrade forbid-version, hold, install,
keep-all, markauto, unmarkauto, purge, reinstall, remove, unhold,
and unmarkauto: remove the user tag <tag> from all packages that
match <pattern> as if with the remove-user-tag command. The pattern
is a search pattern as described in the section Search Patterns in
the aptitude reference manual.
For instance, aptitude safe-upgrade --remove-user-tag-from
"not-upgraded,?action(upgrade)" will remove the not-upgraded tag
from all packages that the safe-upgrade command is able to upgrade.
-s, --simulate
root root
Aptitude::Simulate
--safe-resolver
When package dependency problems are encountered, use a safe
algorithm to solve them. This resolver attempts to preserve as many
of your choices as possible; it will never remove a package or
install a version of a package other than the package's default
candidate version. It is the same algorithm used in safe-upgrade;
indeed, aptitude --safe-resolver full-upgrade is equivalent to
aptitude safe-upgrade. Because safe-upgrade always uses the safe
resolver, it does not accept the --safe-resolver flag.
This option is equivalent to setting the configuration variable
Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver to true.
--schedule-only
aptitude install
aptitude --schedule-only install evolution evolution
--show-package-names <when>
Controls when the versions command shows package names. The
following settings are allowed:
o always: display package names every time that aptitude
versions runs.
o auto: display package names when aptitude versions runs if the
output is not grouped by package, and either there is a
pattern-matching argument or there is more than one argument.
o never: never display package names in the output of aptitude
versions.
This option corresponds to the configuration item
Aptitude::CmdLine::Versions-Show-Package-Names.
--show-resolver-actions
Display the actions performed by the safe resolver.
--show-summary[=<MODE>]
Changes the behavior of aptitude why to summarize each dependency
chain that it outputs, rather than displaying it in long form. If
this option is present and <MODE> is not no-summary, chains that
contain Suggests dependencies will not be displayed: combine
--show-summary with -v to see a summary of all the reasons for the
target package to be installed.
<MODE> can be any one of the following:
1. no-summary: don't show a summary (the default behavior if
--show-summary is not present).
2. first-package: display the first package in each chain. This
is the default value of <MODE> if it is not present.
3. first-package-and-type: display the first package in each
chain, along with the strength of the weakest dependency in the
chain.
4. all-packages: briefly display each chain of dependencies
leading to the target package.
5. all-packages-with-dep-versions: briefly display each chain of
dependencies leading to the target package, including the
target version of each dependency.
This option corresponds to the configuration item
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Summary; if --show-summary is present on
the command-line, it will override Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Summary.
10 Usage of --show-summary
--show-summary used with -v to display all the reasons a package is
installed:
$ aptitude -v --show-summary why foomatic-db
Packages requiring foomatic-db:
cupsys-driver-gutenprint
foomatic-db-engine
foomatic-db-gutenprint
foomatic-db-hpijs
foomatic-filters-ppds
foomatic-gui
kde
printconf
wine
$ aptitude -v --show-summary=first-package-and-type why foomatic-db
Packages requiring foomatic-db:
[Depends] cupsys-driver-gutenprint
[Depends] foomatic-db-engine
[Depends] foomatic-db-gutenprint
[Depends] foomatic-db-hpijs
[Depends] foomatic-filters-ppds
[Depends] foomatic-gui
[Depends] kde
[Depends] printconf
[Depends] wine
$ aptitude -v --show-summary=all-packages why foomatic-db
Packages requiring foomatic-db:
cupsys-driver-gutenprint D: cups-driver-gutenprint D: cups R: foomatic-filters R: foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
foomatic-filters-ppds D: foomatic-filters R: foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
kde D: kdeadmin R: system-config-printer-kde D: system-config-printer R: hal-cups-utils D: cups R: foomatic-filters R: foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
wine D: libwine-print D: cups-bsd R: cups R: foomatic-filters R: foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
foomatic-db-gutenprint D: foomatic-db
foomatic-db-hpijs D: foomatic-db
foomatic-gui D: python-foomatic D: foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
printconf D: foomatic-db
$ aptitude -v --show-summary=all-packages-with-dep-versions why foomatic-db
Packages requiring foomatic-db:
cupsys-driver-gutenprint D: cups-driver-gutenprint (>= 5.0.2-4) D: cups (>= 1.3.0) R: foomatic-filters (>= 4.0) R: foomatic-db-engine (>= 4.0) D: foomatic-db (>= 20090301)
foomatic-filters-ppds D: foomatic-filters R: foomatic-db-engine (>= 4.0) D: foomatic-db (>= 20090301)
kde D: kdeadmin (>= 4:3.5.5) R: system-config-printer-kde (>= 4:4.2.2-1) D: system-config-printer (>= 1.0.0) R: hal-cups-utils D: cups R: foomatic-filters (>= 4.0) R: foomatic-db-engine (>= 4.0) D: foomatic-db (>= 20090301)
wine D: libwine-print (= 1.1.15-1) D: cups-bsd R: cups R: foomatic-filters (>= 4.0) R: foomatic-db-engine (>= 4.0) D: foomatic-db (>= 20090301)
foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db
foomatic-db-gutenprint D: foomatic-db
foomatic-db-hpijs D: foomatic-db
foomatic-gui D: python-foomatic (>= 0.7.9.2) D: foomatic-db-engine D: foomatic-db (>= 20090301)
printconf D: foomatic-db
--show-summary used to list a chain on one line:
$ aptitude --show-summary=all-packages why aptitude-gtk libglib2.0-data
Packages requiring libglib2.0-data:
aptitude-gtk D: libglib2.0-0 R: libglib2.0-data
-t <>, --target-release <>
aptitude -t experimental ... experimental changelogdownloadshow /<>
apt_preferences(5)
APT::Default-Release
-V, --show-versions
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Versions
-v, --verbose
( show)
Aptitude::CmdLine::Verbose
--version
aptitude
When executing the command safe-upgrade or when the option
--safe-resolver is present, aptitude will display a summary of the
actions performed by the resolver before printing the installation
preview. This is equivalent to the configuration options
Aptitude::CmdLine::Safe-Upgrade::Show-Resolver-Actions and
Aptitude::Safe-Resolver::Show-Resolver-Actions.
--visual-preview
-W, --show-why
In the preview displayed before packages are installed or removed,
show which manually installed package requires each automatically
installed package. For instance:
$ aptitude --show-why install mediawiki
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libapache2-mod-php5{a} (for mediawiki) mediawiki php5{a} (for mediawiki)
php5-cli{a} (for mediawiki) php5-common{a} (for mediawiki)
php5-mysql{a} (for mediawiki)
When combined with -v or a non-zero value for
Aptitude::CmdLine::Verbose, this displays the entire chain of
dependencies that lead each package to be installed. For instance:
$ aptitude -v --show-why install libdb4.2-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdb4.2{a} (libdb4.2-dev D: libdb4.2) libdb4.2-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libdb4.4-dev{a} (libdb4.2-dev C: libdb-dev P<- libdb-dev)
This option will also describe why packages are being removed, as
shown above. In this example, libdb4.2-dev conflicts with
libdb-dev, which is provided by libdb-dev.
This argument corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Why and displays the same information that
is computed by aptitude why and aptitude why-not.
-w <>, --width <>
search ()
Aptitude::CmdLine::Package-Display-Width
-y, --assume-yes
yes/no yes -P
Aptitude::CmdLine::Assume-Yes
-Z
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Size-Changes
--autoclean-on-startup
Deletes old downloaded files when the program starts (equivalent to
starting the program and immediately selecting Actions -> Clean
obsolete files). You cannot use this option and
--autoclean-on-startup, -i, or -u at the same time.
--clean-on-startup
Cleans the package cache when the program starts (equivalent to
starting the program and immediately selecting Actions -> Clean
package cache). You cannot use this option and
--autoclean-on-startup, -i, or -u at the same time.
-i
Displays a download preview when the program starts (equivalent to
starting the program and immediately pressing g). You cannot use
this option and --autoclean-on-startup, --clean-on-startup, or -u
at the same time.
-S <>
<>
-u
Begins updating the package lists as soon as the program starts.
You cannot use this option and --autoclean-on-startup,
--clean-on-startup, or -i at the same time.
HOME
$HOME/.aptitude aptitude $HOME/.aptitude/config getpwuid(2)
PAGER
aptitude changelogaptitude more
TMP
TMPDIR TMP aptitude TMP /tmp
TMPDIR
aptitude TMPDIR TMP TMP aptitude /tmp
FILES
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
The file in which stored package states and some package flags are
stored.
/etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, ~/.aptitude/config
The configuration files for aptitude. ~/.aptitude/config overrides
/etc/apt/apt.conf. See apt.conf(5) for documentation of the format
and contents of these files.
SEE ALSO
apt-get(8), apt(8), aptitude-doc-<>
/usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/<>/index.html
Burrows Daniel[FAMILY Given] <dburrows@debian.org>
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Copyright 2004-2010 Daniel Burrows.
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