SBUILD-APT(1)

✨ SBUILD-APT(1) ✨

okay so bestie, this is sbuild-apt from the Debian sbuild fam — you're gonna love her, she's literally the "just run apt in the chroot for me" bestie 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

sbuild-apt — run apt-get or apt-cache inside an sbuild chroot 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sbuild-apt [-h|--help | -V|--version] CHROOT (apt-get|apt-cache) [ARG1
[ARG2 [ARGn...]]]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically sbuild-apt runs apt-get(1) or apt-cache(1) inside the chroot you pick, and it passes along any extra arguments you throw at it. That's the whole vibe. Simple, iconic, does exactly what it says on the tin ✨

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

💜 Actions

• -h, --help — shows you this manual, bestie. the "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• -V, --version — prints the version info. slay, now you know what you're running 💅

🌈 Chroot selection

• CHROOT — the chroot where the command actually runs. and here's the cute shortcut moment: you can use o, s, t, u and e as abbreviations for oldstable, stable, testing, unstable and experimental respectively 👑 iykyk, saves you so much typing

⭐ APT options

• apt-get — run apt-get. periodt.
• apt-cache — run apt-cache. also periodt.
• ARG — extra arguments you want passed through to apt-get or apt-cache. send them straight through, no cap 🚀

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🌺 EXAMPLES 🌺

Wanna update the APT package lists in the unstable chroot? say less:

% sbuild-apt unstable apt-get update

heads up bestie: sbuild-update(1) is a more convenient method for doing the above, so maybe use that instead 😌

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🌼 AUTHORS 🌼

Roger Leigh. 👑 (yes, the whole author list. one legend.)

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright © 2006–2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

apt-cache(1), apt-get(1), sbuild(1), sbuild-update(1), sbuild-upgrade(1) — go read the whole friend group fr fr 📚

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aaaand that's the page, bestie 💖 this one's from Version 0.89.3+deb13u4, dated 28 December 2025 — mwah, go run some apt commands in a chroot, you got this 🫶✨