Commands using apt (50)
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That command installs "most" and make this command as the default man reader. The "most" works like "less" (the current man reader), but it render colors for manpages and may do more things. Read "man most". You can see a preview here: http://www.dicas-l.com.br/dicas-l/20090718.php
27apt-get install most && update-alternatives --set pager /usr/bin/most -
13apt-get install `ssh root@host_you_want_to_clone "dpkg -l | grep ii" | awk '{print $2}'`
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Bash's here string
12sudo -s <<< 'apt update -y && apt upgrade -y' -
Requires: imagemagick and graphviz On Debian systems, displays a graph of package dependencies. Works also with other image formats, like svg :
apt-cache dotty bash | dot -T svg | display9apt-cache dotty apache2 | dot -T png | display -
8apt-get moo
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search ubuntu's remote package source repositories for a specific program to see which package contains it Show Sample Output
7apt-file find bin/programname -
Shows all configurations to apt and dpkg, rarely changed, you probably still have the default configuration. Go ahead and explore your configuration if you dare, perhaps change your apt-cache directory, Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; or the names of the log files. Show Sample Output
6apt-config dump -
5apt-file search iostat
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This will take the packages matching a given `apt-cache search` query (a collection of AND'd words or regexps) and tell you how popular they are. This is particularly nice for those times you have to figure out which solution to use for e.g. a PDF reader or a VNC client. Substitute "ubuntu.com" for "debian.org" if you want this to use Ubuntu's data instead. Everything else will work perfectly. Show Sample Output
5apt-popcon() { (echo \#rank; apt-cache search "$@" |awk '$1 !~ /^lib/ {print " "$1" "}') |grep -Ff- <(wget -qqO- http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst.gz |gunzip); } -
4apt-cache stats
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Create Debian package dependency graph using GraphViz
3apt-cache dotty PKG-NAME | dot -Tpng | display -
3apt-get --just-print upgrade
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if you don't want to show string "version?, then use awk or cut filter it: apt-cache show pkgname | grep -i "version:" | awk '{ print $2 }' we can also use regex to search many packages and show their versions: apt-cache search pkgregex | grep -i "version:" Show Sample Output
3apt-cache show pkgname | grep -i "version:" -
This let's you find out the total packages that have available upgrades. Usefull if you want to check or show the total available upgrades on your system. Show Sample Output
3apt-get -s upgrade | awk '/[0-9]+ upgraded,/ {print $1 " package updates are available"}' -
After, check if working by executing this command locally : git clone git@192.168.0.18:repositories/gitosis-admin.git Tutorial : http://blog.hemca.com/?p=560
2apt-get -y install git-core gitosis; adduser --home /home/git --gecos "git user" git; su git -c "ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /home/git/.ssh/id_rsa; gitosis-init < ~/.ssh/id_rsa" -
Works for debian and ubuntu based distros. Show Sample Output
2apt list --upgradable | grep -v 'Listing...' | cut -d/ -f1 | tr '\r\n' ' ' | sed '$s/ $/\n/' -
An apt-get wrapper function which will run the command via sudo, but will run it normally if you're only downloading source files. This was a bit of an excuse to show off the framework of
cmd && echo true || echo false...but as you can see, you must be careful about what is in the "true" block to make sure it executes without error, otherwise the "false" block will be executed. To allow the apt-get return code to pass through, you need to use a more normal if/else block:apt-get () { if [ "$1" = source ]; then command apt-get "$@"; else sudo apt-get "$@"; fi }1apt-get () { [ "$1" = source ] && (command apt-get "$@";true) || sudo apt-get "$@" } -
Taken from apticron and modified. Show Sample Output
1apt-get --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated -s dist-upgrade | grep ^Inst | cut -d ' ' -f2 -
Usefull if you only want to see the package names, or if you want to use them in a script.
1apt-get -s upgrade | awk '/Inst.+/ {print $2}' -
In this case, linux- is the prefix; simply running
apt-cache pkgnameswould list every package APT knows about. The default APT config assumes -g, --generate; to use the cache as/is, you could similarly run:apt-cache --no-generate pkgnames [prefix]Adding --all-names, like so:apt-cache --no-generate --all-names pkgnames [prefix]would print all the packages APT knows about, using the cache as/is, including virtual packages and missing dependencies. This command was shamelessly stolen from the apt-cache(8) man-page. Show Sample Output1apt-cache pkgnames linux- -
An alternative without aptitude.
1apt-mark showmanual|xargs sudo apt-mark markauto -
If, for example, you want to remove all kernels and headers but the last three versions, you can't use one of that magic all-in-one "remove old stuff" commands. With this simple but elegant command you can remove a range of versions, or a list of versions with e.g. {14,16,20}. Show Sample Output
1apt purge linux*{14..18}* -
This will also work with bash instead of sh shell sudo bash -c 'apt update -y && apt upgrade -y'
1sudo sh -c 'apt update -y && apt upgrade -y' -
Search the names and descriptions of all available packages and prints out the name and the short description.
0apt-cache search someregex -
For example: check the APT security keys to make sure the Google digital signature was imported correctly Show Sample Output
0apt-key list - 1 2 >
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