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APT (short for Advanced Packaging Tool) is a package management system which finds it origin in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system, and is based on the dpkg package management.
APT was introduced in the Deambox world since OE 2.2. (For dreamboxes with OE 1.6 or OE 2.0, OPKG is used.)
The package management in the shell is a powerful tool for the Dreambox, and offers far more possibilities compared to the package management with the remote control. Of course, using the remote control is easy and most of the time adequate. But maybe this article can convince you to give it a try via Telnet or SSH.
This article explains how to search / install / remove packages and some more interesting commands which offers APT.
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Feeds
The feed files are stored in the directory:
/etc/apt/sources.list
Install packages from feed
Install
A package can be installed with following command:
apt-get install package_name
Deinstallation
A package can be removed with following command:
apt-get remove package_name
To remove a package with all unused dependencies, use the command:
apt-get autoremove package_name
Local saved packages
Install
To install deb package, which are available on a computer, it needs to be copied onto the box in the /tmp directory. The installation is done with following commands:
cd /tmp dpkg --install *.deb bzw. dpkg -i *.deb
Deinstallation
To remove a package which was installed with dpkg, use following commands:
dpkg --remove package_name bzw. dpkg -r package_name
Update / Upgrade
Update
To update the package list, use following command:
apt-get update
Upgrade
To update the installed software, use following command:
apt-get upgrade
or
apt-get dist-upgrade
Update and Upgrade together
All in one go:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
or
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Other useful commands
The missing dependencies can be checked with the following command:
apt-get check
install missing dependencies:
apt-get -f install
the cache (the downloaded install files) can be deletes with following command:
apt-get clean