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I need to install tweaks' packages on an jailbroken iPhone via SSH. But apt-get is not included in mac command line tools. I've found that brew can be used, but it doesn't seem to work when ssh'ing. Apt-get remove torcs. If I want to also remove config files: apt-get purge torcs. Setting up apt-get to use a http-proxy. These are three methods of using apt-get with a http-proxy. Temporary proxy session. This is a temporary method that you can manually use each time you want to use apt-get through a http-proxy. Advanced Mac users may appreciate using the Homebrew package manager, which greatly simplifies the process of installing command line software and tools on a Mac. For example, if you want to easily install favorite command line tools on a Mac like cask, htop, wget, nmap, tree, irssi, links. Nov 25, 2013 How to install apt-get on Mac OS X or rather OS X Mavericks so that we can use the power of installing Debian based packages is shown in this guide. We talked about UNIX Operating System, Unix Like Operating System and Linux Operating System before.
apt-get - APT package handling utility - command-line interface
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Description
apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's'back-end' to other tools using the APT library. Several 'front-end' interfaces exist, such as synaptic and aptitude.Commands
Unless the -h, or --help option is given, one of the commands below must be present.- The /etc/apt/sources.list(5) file contains a list of locations from
- which to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for over-riding the general settings for individual packages.
- installpkg(s)
- This option is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, ina Fedora Core system, glibc would be the argument provided, not glibc-2.4.8.i686.rpm).
- All packages required by the package(s) specified for installation will also
- be retrieved and installed. The /etc/apt/sources.list(5) file is used to locate the repositories for the desired packages. If a hyphen (-) isappended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is currently installed. Similarly a plus sign (+)can be used to designate a package to install. These latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system.
- A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by
- following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected forinstall. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the distribution orthe Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable).
- Both of the version selection mechanisms can downgrade packages and must be
- used with care.
- Finally, the apt_preferences(5) mechanism allows you to create an
- alternative installation policy for individual packages.
- If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one
- of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regular expression, and it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are theninstalled (or removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo.*' matches 'how-lo' and 'lowest'. If this is undesired, anchor the regular expressionwith a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific regular expression.
- removepkg(s)
- Identical to install except that packages are removed instead of installed. If a plus sign (+) is appended to the package name (with nointervening space), the identified package will be installed instead of removed.
- source source_pkg
- Causes apt-get to fetch source packages. APT will examine the available packages to decide which source package to fetch. It will then find anddownload into the current directory the newest available version of that source package. Source packages are tracked separately from binary packages viarpm-src type lines in the sources.list(5) file. This probably will mean that you will not get the same source as the package you have installed,or could install. If the --compile options is specified then the package will be compiled to a binary using rpmbuild, if --download-onlyis specified then the source package will not be unpacked.
- A specific source version can be retrieved by following the source name with
- an equals (=) and then the version to fetch, similar to the mechanism used for the package files. This enables exact matching of the source packagename and version, implicitly enabling the APT::Get::Only-Source option.
- Note that source packages are not tracked like binary packages, they exist
- only in the current directory and are similar to downloading source tar balls.
- build-dep source_pkg
- Causes apt-get to install/remove packages in an attempt to satisfy the build dependencies for a source package.
- check
- Diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache and checks for broken dependencies.
- clean
- Clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/.
- autoclean
- Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package files thatcan no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period of time without it growing out of control. Theconfiguration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being erased if it is set to off.
Options
All command-line options may be set using the configuration file, the descriptions indicate the configuration option to set. For boolean options you canoverride the config file by using something like -f-, --no-f, -f=no or several other variations.
- -m may produce an error in some situations.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken.
- -m, --ignore-missing, --fix-missing
- Ignore missing packages. If packages cannot be retrieved or fail the integrity check after retrieval (corrupted package files), hold back those packagesand handle the result. Use of this option together with -f may produce an error in some situations. If a package is selected for installation(particularly if it is mentioned on the command-line) and it could not be downloaded then it will be silently held back.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Missing.
- --no-download
- Disables downloading of packages. This is best used with --ignore-missing to force APT to use only the rpms it has already downloaded.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Download.
- -q, --quiet
- Quiet. Produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. More q's will produce more quiet up to a maximum of two. You can also use-q=# to set the quiet level, overriding the configuration file. Note that quiet level 2 implies -y, you should never use -qq without ano-action modifier such as -d, --print-uris or -s as APT may decided to do something you did not expect.
- Configuration Item: quiet.
- -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act
- No action. Perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not actually change the system.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Simulate.
- Simulate prints out a series of lines, each one representing an rpm
- operation: Configure (Conf), Remove (Remv), Unpack (Inst). Square brackets indicate broken packages with an empty set of square brackets meaning breaksthat are of no consequence (rare).
- -y, --yes, --assume-yes
- Automatic yes to prompts. Assume 'yes' as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively. If an undesirable situation, such as changing a held package orremoving an essential package, occurs then apt-get will abort.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Assume-Yes.
- -u, --show-upgraded
- Show upgraded packages. Print out a list of all packages that are to be upgraded.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Show-Upgraded.
- -V, --verbose-versions
- Show full versions for upgraded and installed packages.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Show-Versions.
- -b, --compile, --build
- Compile source packages after downloading them.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Compile.
- --ignore-hold
- Ignore package Holds. This causes apt-get to ignore a hold placed on a package. This may be useful in conjunction with dist-upgrade to override alarge number of undesired holds.
- Configuration Item: APT::Ignore-Hold.
- --no-upgrade
- Do not upgrade packages. When used in conjunction with install, no-upgrade will prevent packages listed from being upgraded if they are already installed.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Upgrade.
- --force-yes
- Force yes. This is a dangerous option that will cause apt-get to continue without prompting if it is doing something potentially harmful. It shouldnot be used except in very special situations. Using --force-yes can potentially destroy your system!
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::force-yes.
- --print-uris
- Instead of fetching the files to install, their URIs are printed. Each URI will have the path, the destination file name, the size and the expected md5hash. Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file name on the remote site! This also works with the source and update commands. Whenused with the update command, the MD5 and size are not included, and it is up to the user to decompress any compressed files.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Print-URIs.
- --reinstall
- Re-Install packages that are already installed and at the newest version.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::ReInstall.
- --list-cleanup
- This option defaults to on, use --no-list-cleanup to turn it off. When on, apt-get will automatically manage the contents of/var/lib/apt/lists to ensure that obsolete files are erased. The only reason to turn it off is if you frequently change your source list.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::List-Cleanup.
- -t, --target-release, --default-release
- This option controls the default input to the policy engine. It creates a default pin at priority 990 using the specified release string. The preferencesfile may further override this setting. In short, this option lets you have simple control over which distribution packages will be retrieved from. Some commonexamples might be -t '2.1*' or -t unstable.
- Configuration Item: APT::Default-Release; see also the
- apt_preferences(5) manual page.
- --trivial-only
- Only perform operations that are 'trivial'. Logically this can be considered related to --assume-yes. Where --assume-yes will answer yes toany prompt, --trivial-only will answer no.
- Configuration Item: fIAPT::Get::Trivial-Only.
- --no-remove
- If any packages are to be removed apt-get immediately aborts without prompting.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Remove.
- --only-source
- Only has meaning for the source command. Indicates that the given source names are not to be mapped through the binary table. This means that if thisoption is specified, the source command will only accept source package names as arguments, rather than accepting binary package names and looking up thecorresponding source package.
- Configuration Item: APT::Get::Only-Source.
- -h, --help
- Show a short usage summary.
- -v, --version
- Show the program version.
- -c, --config-file
- Configuration File. Specify a configuration file to use. The program will read the default configuration file and then this configuration file. Seeapt.conf(5) for syntax information.
- -o, --option
- Set a Configuration Option. This will set an arbitrary configuration option. The syntax is -o Foo::Bar=bar.
Files
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- Configuration Item: Dir::Etc::Preferences.
- /var/cache/apt/archives/
- Storage area for retrieved package files.
- Configuration Item: Dir::Cache::Archives.
- /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
- Storage area for package files in transit.
- Configuration Item: Dir::Cache::Archives (implicit partial).
- /var/lib/apt/lists/
- Storage area for state information for each package resource specified in sources.list(5).
- Configuration Item: Dir::State::Lists.
- /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/
- Storage area for state information in transit.
- Configuration Item: Dir::State::Lists (implicit partial).
See Also
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apt-cache(8), apt-cdrom(8), sources.list(5),apt.conf(5),apt-config(8), apt_preferences(5)
Diagnostics
apt-get returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.Bugs
Reporting bugs in APT-RPM is best done in the APT-RPM mailinglist athttp://apt-rpm.org/mailinglist.shtml.Author
Maintainer and contributor information can be found in the credits pagehttp://apt-rpm.org/about.shtml of APT-RPM.Referenced By
apt(8),aptitude(8),dselect(1),fakechroot