APT-CUDF-GET(8)

💅 apt-cudf-get(8) — bestie edition 🦋

okay so real talk, this is apt-cudf-get from the DOSE Tools collection, and she is the wrapper for calling apt-get with external solvers. yes bestie, external solvers. we're doing this. 🌈

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✨ NAME ✨

apt-cudf-get — a wrapper for calling apt-get with external solvers 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

apt-cudf-get [arguments]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so apt-cudf-get is a wrapper that lets you invoke apt-get with external solvers while ignoring apt's pinning. that's the whole vibe. no cap. ✨

All options are passed on to apt-get. every single one. she's not holding anything back, she forwards it all, main character behavior. 👑

ngl, normally apt uses so-called pinning to pick a candidate version of a package when there are several versions available. that's just a thing apt does, and it also holds when you call apt-get with external solvers, so like… don't think the solver era changes that. it does not. 🙈

BUT. when it's not possible to find a solution under this constraint, it can be genuinely useful to relax pinning and let the external solver choose among all available versions of packages to satisfy dependencies — not only the ones selected by the pinning. and that? that is precisely what apt-cudf-get does. she said relax, she said let the solver cook. 🔥

small heads-up bestie: when you're using an external solver, the proposed solution may contain any available version of the packages you give as arguments to install on the command line without specifying a version qualifier. so like, be aware. 👀

for example:

apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml

may propose to install any available version of ocaml, while

apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml=4.01.0

will only propose to install ocaml in version 4.01.0. see the difference? the =4.01.0 is you deciding, periodt. 💅

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo — icons, honestly. 👑

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🚨 BUGS 🚨

not all types of arguments to apt are correctly treated by this wrapper, bestie. and in particular?? not the +pkg and -pkg shorthands for installation and removal requests. so like… mind those. 💀

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• apt-get(8)
• apt-cudf(1)
• apt-cudf.conf(5)
• update-cudf-solvers(8)
• README.cudf-solvers <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.cudf-solvers>
• README.Debian <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.Debian>

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okay that's the whole page, and this one's signed off from the DOSE Tools collection, dated 2026-07-06 — that's the source, that's the version, that's the date, and she ate. 🎀💖 no notes. go read your other manpages bestie, iykyk. 🦋✨