APT-BUILD(1)

okay so bestie, welcome to APT-BUILD(1) / apt-build(1) from the General Commands Manual — this is the little apt-get frontend that builds and installs packages optimized for your architecture. yes, it's giving compiler goblin energy, and yes, we're gonna read the whole thing. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

apt-build — Fetch sources and build packages optimized for your architecture. 🦋

📦 SYNOPSIS 📦

apt-build [ options ] [ update ] [ upgrade ] [ world ] [ install pkg ] [
remove pkg ] [ info pkg ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

apt-build is an apt-get frontend to build and install architecture optimized packages.

lowkey it's apt-get with a glow-up for your architecture. periodt. 💅

🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

• update — Retrieve new lists of packages. Refresh the tea.
• upgrade — Perform an upgrade. Glow-up time.
• world — Rebuild your system. Rebuild your whole system, bestie — main character energy.
• install — Build and install new packages. New faves incoming.
• source — Download and extract source in the build directory. Source code tea, extracted in the build dir.
• info — Info on a package which could be built. Spill the deets on a package that could be built.
• remove — Remove packages. Bye bye.
• clean-build — Erase built packages. Delete the built packages.
• clean-sources — Call debian/rules clean in source directories. 🧚
• build-source — Build source without installing them. 🌸
• update-source — Update sources and rebuild them if they are missing in the repository. 🦋
• build-repository — Rebuild the repository. ⭐

⚙️ OPTIONS ⚙️

• --help — Shows help.
• --nowrapper — Do not use the gcc wrapper.
• --remove-builddep — Remove build-dependencies installed by apt-build.
• --no-source — Don't download source.
• --build-dir — Specify build-dir.
• --build-only — Build package only.
• --rebuild — Rebuild a package.
• --reinstall — Build and install an already installed package.
• --build-command <command> — Use this command to build package.
• --patch <file> — Apply this patch before build (you can use this option one or several times).
• --patch-strip, -p <number> — Prefix to strip on patch (0 = -p0, 1 = -p1 ...).
• --yes, -y — Assume yes.
• --purge — Use purge instead of remove.
• --noupdate — Do not run 'apt-get update' before package installation.
• --sources-list — Specify sources.list file.
• --apt-get — Specify an alternative apt-get command.
• --apt-cache — Specify an alternative apt-cache command.
• --force-yes — Force yes.
• --source — Do not download source (sources are extracted already).
• --repository-dir — Specify the repository directory.
• --target-release — Distribution to fetch packages from.
• --config — Specify an alternative configuration file.
• --version, -v — Show version.

💀 BUGS 💀

Many.

That's it. That's the bug list. Many. fr fr. 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

apt-build was written by Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org> with many contributors.

Iconic. 👑

mwah 💋 from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, November 2003, APT-BUILD(1) 🎀🫶