APTDCON(1)

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💖 APTDCON 💖 — the aptdcon(1) manual page, bestie edition

okay so welcome to aptdcon(1), from the User manual ✨ she's a command line client and she's thriving. Sit down, grab a snack, we're doing package management the comfy way.

✨ NAME ✨

aptdcon — command line client for aptdaemon 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

aptdcon [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options only, no positional args, she's low maintenance like that 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so aptdcon lets you do package management tasks — like installing or removing software — using aptdaemon. think of her as the polite middle-woman between you and your system 🫶

and the best part?? there isn't any need to be root to run this programme ✨ no sudo, no permission drama, no "you don't have permission to do that" heartbreak. she just handles it. main character energy, honestly 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here come the flags, bestie. all of them. no skipping, no skimming, we respect the lore 📚

  • -v, --version — shows the version number of the aptdcon. cute little "hi, this is me" moment 💖
  • -h, --help — shows info about the usage of the command. your emergency map when you're lost 🗺️
  • -d, --debug — shows additional information on the command line. it's giving verbose narrator 🔍
  • -i, --install PACKAGES — install the list of PACKAGES. if you wanna install more than one package you have to put the package names into quotation marks 🎀
  • --reinstall PACKAGES — reinstall the list of PACKAGES. if you wanna reinstall more than one package you have to put the package names into quotation marks 🎀
  • -r, --remove PACKAGES — remove the list of PACKAGES. if you wanna remove more than one package you have to put the package names into quotation marks 🎀
  • -p, --purge PACKAGES — purge the list of PACKAGES. if you wanna purge more than one package you have to put the package names into quotation marks 🎀
  • -u, --upgrade PACKAGES — upgrade the list of PACKAGES. if you wanna upgrade more than one package you have to put the package names into quotation marks 🎀
  • --upgrade-system — upgrade the whole system. every package, no crumbs left, she ate 🔥
  • --fix-install — try to complete a previously cancelled installation by calling "dpkg --configure -a". we love a cleanup era 🧹
  • --fix-depends — try to resolve unsatisified dependencies. Attention: currently you don't get a confirmation of the changes, which makes this method quite dangerous since it could remove a lot of packages 💀
bestie. for real. --fix-depends asks you nothing, warns you nothing, and will happily yeet a lot of packages into the void. it is genuinely dangerous. be careful 🙈
  • --add-repository ´DEB_LINE´ — allow to install software from the repository specified by the given DEB_LINE. you have to put quotation marks around the DEB_LINE since it normally contains spaces: ´deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main´ 🌈
  • --sources-file SOURCES_FILE — specify an alternative sources file to which the new repository should be written. SOURCES_FILE should be only the basename: backports.list 📝
  • --hide-terminal — do not attach to the interactive terminal of the underlying dpkg call. she's shy, let her work in peace 🙈
  • --allow-unauthenticated — allow to install packages which are not from a trusted vendor. spicy behavior, proceed with intention ⚠️

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

the following command will install the package xterm and remove the package eterm in the same run:

$ aptdcon --install "xterm" --remove "eterm"

to handle more than one package the names have to be put into quotation marks. the following command will install xterm and eterm:

$ aptdcon --install "xterm eterm"

the following command will add the backport repository to the sources.list in a separate file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list:

$ aptdcon --sources-file backports.list \
    --add-repostiry "deb http://archive.backports.org/debian
stable main"
👀 yes, the example really does say --add-repostiry. we're keeping it exactly as the manual wrote it. no editing, no "fixing", we honor the source fr fr 💖

🔍 DIAGNOSTICS 🔍

by default aptdaemon logs to the syslog facility AptDaemon. and furthermore?? you can use the -d option to get additional information on the command line 🫶

so if something's acting up, -d is your bestie and syslog is your diary 🎀

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

https://launchpad.net/aptdaemon

go say hi, she doesn't bite ✨

😭 BUGS 😭

you can report bugs at the Launchpad site of aptdaemon:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+filebug

found a bug?? tell her, she can take it, growth mindset 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Sebastian Heinlein <devel at glatzor dot de>

iconic. legendary. thank you for your service 🫡✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the aptdaemon manual, dated December 2009 — go forth and install things without root, you absolute legend 💖💅✨🎀

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