aptitude

Advanced APT frontend package manager for Debian.

Debian

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Syntax

$aptitude [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Optionen

search Searches packages

install Installs packages

purge Removes packages including configuration

Examples

$sudo aptitude update

Examples

$sudo aptitude install nginx

Examples

$aptitude search ~i

Typical use cases

Standard usage

aptitude --help

Detailed Help

man aptitude

Note Classic Debian tool with its own resolver logic.

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