Welcome to python-apt’s documentation!

Note

This documentation can not be considered complete at the moment. But it provides better documentation than the documentation available through pydoc.

Note

This documentation has been created by Sphinx, using reStructuredText files written by Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>, and in case of the apt package, from the documentation shipped in the modules.

Contents:

• apt — Highlevel apt package
  • apt.cache — The Cache class
  • apt.cdrom - Functionality like in apt-cdrom
  • apt.debfile — Classes related to debian package files
  • apt.package — Classes for package handling
  • apt.progress — Classes for progress reporting
  • apt.progress.gtk2 — GTK widgets
  • Classes exported in apt
• apt_pkg — The low-level bindings for apt-pkg
  • Classes in apt_pkg
  • Module Initialization
  • Object initialization
  • The Acquire interface
  • Hash functions
  • Debian control files
  • Dependencies
  • Configuration
  • Locking
  • Other functions
  • Package States
  • Dependency types
  • Installed states
  • Priorities
  • Select states
  • Build information
• apt_inst - Working with local Debian packages
  • Checking packages
  • Listing contents
  • Extracting contents
  • Example: Emulating dpkg --extract
  • Example: Emulating dpkg --contents
  • Example: Emulating dpkg --info
• aptsources — Working with sources.list
  • aptsources.distinfo — provide meta information for distro repositories
  • aptsources.distro — Distribution abstraction of the sources.list
  • aptsources.sourceslist — Provide an abstraction of the sources.list
• Contributing to python-apt
  • Available branches
  • C++ Coding style
  • Python Coding Style
  • Submitting your patch
  • Documentation updates
  • Example patch session

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

TODO

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This should be split and cleaned up a bit.

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