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apt
Last modified: Thursday, December 13, 2007
A Debian tool used to manage
packages. When a user installs a package on a
system, it also searches for and then installs or upgrades all the necessary
dependant packages to make the package work. The actual command is apt-get.
How do I use Apt ? Apt originally was developed by the Debian project to work together with DEB packages. Since there are not many functional differences between RPM and DEB packages, Conectiva ported Apt to use RPM.