![]() ![]() However, if you keep your 14.04 version of Ubuntu up to date with service packs then you should have the updated man page. For example, Ubuntu 15.10 has the latest man page but 14.04 does not by default. Local entries may or may not be up to date depending on the version of your distro. Man Pages are documentation pages that can be used locally on your system or via online directories. The DDH is so severe that you’ll find documentation from marked asīefore you’ll find anything useful related to the “apt” command, if you ever find it at all. If you were to throw “linux”, “ubuntu”, or even “debian” into the search query the types of results you’ll receive won’t change. If you were to search Google, or DuckDuckGo, for “apt documentation” you’d find one of three types of results: The fundamental problem with the documentation regarding APT is that depending on where you look and how you look, you may or may not find anything at all. ![]() Using apt instead will save time and save the amount of keystrokes required to accomplish the same task. Some may argue that “apt” isn’t much different than “apt-get” and that is true but I think the hyphen in the command is what creates a bottleneck for many users due to its awkwardness. If you wanted to install a package almost all guides will suggest:īut now instead you can simplify that with In the past, that was the correct suggestion because “apt” as a command hadn’t existed at the time but due to the Dispersed Documentation Hell a lot of people aren’t aware that now it does exists. The documentation related to APT is scattered in various different tools and in some cases, such as the main apt command, practically impossible to find.įor over a decade, practically all tutorials and guides for installing and removing packages on a Debian/Ubuntu based system have been suggesting apt-get to users. Unfortunately, APT suffers from a different kind of hell, something I call “ That so many people experienced in the early days of Linux-based operating systems. ![]() In the past, users needed to know multiple command structures like apt-get, apt-cache, apt-config, and many more to utilize the full feature-set of APT.ĪPT was created originally to solve a lot of package management problems like putting an end to the APT, the Advanced Package Tool from the Debian project, is for managing packages by using a lot of separate tools to accomplish various tasks. ![]()
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