Posted by Admin on 30th December 2006
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This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then lists every package with a higher version number than the one installed.
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Posted by Admin on 29th December 2006
apt-rdepends searches through the APT cache to find package dependencies. apt-rdepends knows how to emulate the result of calling apt-cache with both depends and dotty options.
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Posted by Admin on 26th December 2006
dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a Debian package that has already been installed on your system. If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, files in /etc modified),the new package will inherit the changes.
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Posted by Admin on 14th December 2006
File `diversions’ are a way of forcing dpkg not to install a file into its location, but to a `diverted’ location. Diversions can be used through the Debian package scripts to move a file away when it causes a conflict. System administrators can also use it to override some package’s configuration file, or whenever some files (which aren’t marked as ‘conffiles’) need to be preserved by dpkg, when installing a newer version of a package which contains those files.
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Posted by Admin on 3rd December 2006
apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new version of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently installed on the system.
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Posted by Admin on 2nd December 2006
apt-config is an internal program used by various portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses the main configura-tion file /etc/apt/apt.conf in a manner that is easy to use by scripted applications.
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