APT - MichaIng/DietPi GitHub Wiki

NB: Work in progress! 😉

APT (Advanced Package Tool) is Debians software provisioning and packaging solution and somehow one of the main features and identifies of Debian-based Linux distributions.

It allows to access APT repositories, defined by the /etc/apt/sources.list[.d/*.list] file[s] to install a very wide range of software packages from.

Implementation

APT of course is present on all Debian-based distros by default:

• Debian APT package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/apt
• Debian man page: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/apt/apt.8.de.html

DietPi allows to edit the used main Debian repo APT mirror via: DietPi-Config

DietPi-Software will install 3rd party APT repos on demand, if required by selected software installs.

On DietPi images, APT is by default configured to do the following:

• Force old config...
• Prefer IPv4...

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