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Chapter 5: Package Management

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and the template files and configuration scripts are written to the

directory specified with -t or --temp-dir, or by the configuration

option APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir. The filenames are in the

form package.template.xxxx and package.config.xxxx.

Options

-c file, --config-file=file

Specify a configuration file to be read after the default configu-

ration file.

-h, --help

Print help message and exit.

-o, --option

Set a configuration option. Syntax is -o group::tool=option.

-t dir, --tempdir=dir

Write the extracted template files and configuration scripts to

the specified directory. The configuration option is

APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir.

-v, --version

Print the version information and exit.

apt-ftparchive

apt-ftparchive [options] command

Generate package and other index files used to access a distribu-

tion source. The files should be generated on the source’s origin

site.

Commands

clean config-file

Clean the databases used by the specified configuration file by

removing obsolete records.

contents path

Search the specified directory tree recursively. For each .deb

file found, read the file list, sort the files by package, and write

the results to standard output. Use with --db to specify a

binary caching database.

generate config-file sections

Build indexes according ...