NAME¶
Aptsh - interactive APT shell
SYNOPSIS¶
aptsh {install pkg | remove pkg | update | ... } [-?, --help] [-c, --config-file
configuration_file ] [-s, --storing] [-v, --version] [-x, --execute
aptsh_command ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Aptsh is a tool which makes using APT much easier. It gives you an
interactive shell with all those sweet features like tab-completion (which you
can use to complete name of a package), simpler access to apt commands and
easier package searching (ls, rls). Although it's not necessary, it just tries
to make life easier.
- Other way of using Aptsh is using it as a normal
command-line tool, a replacement for apt-* commands.
USAGE¶
We'll try to do some ordinary administration tasks - install/remove/search few
packages. As a root, type 'aptsh' and press return. Then type 'ins', and press
Tab - 'ins' should change into 'install' followed by a whitespace. Now write
down 'kde', and press Tab twice - if you're using Debian or other large
distro, it should ask you whether you want to see all packages which begin
with 'kde'. As you should have noticed - it works exactly like a good shell.
You can also play with 'remove' - then aptsh will prompt only installed
packages. And remember, that you can pipe results of commands (ie. dump | grep
^Package | cut -d -f 2 | grep ^kde ). You can execute a normal shell
command by preceding it with ".".
COMMANDS¶
Aptsh commands:
- dump-cfg
- Dump all aptsh options.
- dpkg
- Query dpkg.
- ls
- Search for packages by matching names to a wildcard.
Remember that in some enviroments you have to put the expression between
" " or preced special chars with \.
- rls
- Search for packages by matching names to a regular
expression. Read note about special chars above!
- whatis
- Display a short description of a package.
- whichpkg
- Find the package that supplies the given command or
file.
- listfiles
- List all files owned by a package.
- news
- Obtain the latest news about the package from Debian
servers
- changelog
- Retrieve latest changelog for the package from Debian
servers
- toupgrade
- List packages with newer versions available for
upgrading
- `
- Change mode.
- queue-commit
- Commit stored commands. User answers to all prompts.
- queue-commit-say
- Commit commands kept in command queue, automatically
answering to all prompts. It should be followed by the answer, if not, it
answers \n (then usually program's behaviour is default). Proper usage of
commit-say would be "commit-say y" - then Aptsh answers 'y' to
all prompts.
- queue
- Display currently stored commands.
- queue-remove
- Remove stored commands from list. It should be followed by
list or section of numbers of items to remove. Proper usage of this
command would be: "commit-remove 1 3 10-15 21" - it will remove
items numbered as 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21. You can use alias
'last' which refers to the last item.
- queue-clear
- Clear list of stored commands
- orphans
- Find orphaned libraries on your system.
- orphans-all
- Find all orphaned packages on your system, not only
libraries. It's output is other than the orphans' one - it's splitted into
two columns, first one contains packages' Section, second Name.
- help
- Executes 'man aptsh', or displays short info about commands
(if any were given as arguments).
- help-howto
- Displays HOWTO. You can pipe it to a browser
("more" or "less") or grep it.
- quit
- Erm... quit? :)
apt-get querying commands (see man apt-get):
- install
- update
- upgrade
- dselect-upgrade
- dist-upgrade
- remove
- purge
- (same as remove --purge )
- source
- build-dep
- check
- clean
- autoclean
apt-cache querying commands (see man apt-cache):
- show
- dump
- add
- showpkg
- stats
- showsrc
- dumpavail
- unmet
- search
- depends
- rdepends
- pkgnames
- dotty
- policy
- madison
AUTHOR¶
Marcin Wrochniak (wrochniak@gmail.com)
