Comments on: Ubuntu Package Management from Command line using apt (Advanced Packaging Tool)

By: Marek Šabo

Marek Šabo — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:32:26 +0000

Nice one. Just one thing, as Hmpf said apt-get dist-upgrade is higher level of upgrade, not release upgrade. Upgrade to new release e.g. in Ubuntu systems is done via do-release-upgrade.

By: Mark Limo

Mark Limo — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:05:53 +0000

How to add some more apt-get sources ?? nvidia ??

By: Adam Logan

Adam Logan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:14:23 +0000

What the heck does apt-get moo do? I looked at the man page but I still don’t get it and there’s no way I’m gonna just punch that in without a clear idea of the result.

By: hardy stevenson

hardy stevenson — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:32:53 +0000

I cant believe you left out the most important
and by far the most useful command
sudo apt-get moo

By: Vortex

Vortex — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:50:29 +0000

instead of “apt-get --purge remove” you can simply use “apt-get purge”.

By: Hmpf

Hmpf — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:56:45 +0000

Hm, as far as I remember ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ and not ‘apt-get upgrade’ is the recommended way to upgrade packages. The reason is that a simple ‘apt-get upgrade’ will not update a package if it depends on packages not already installed on the system. ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ will update the package and retrieve and install the needed dependencies.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:53:07 +0000

It should be noted that apt-file is not in the default install and it has to be installed prior to usage.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:48:07 +0000

Use aptitude if you have it available.

By: gotunandan

gotunandan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:35:41 +0000

Very good article.
One thing I wanted to point out was that you do not need to use ‘sudo’ for apt-cache

$ apt-cache show build-essential

will work as a normal user as well