Python APT Documentation contents

Contents:

• What’s new in python-apt
  • What’s New In python-apt 0.8
    • Support for Python 3
    • Real classes in apt_pkg
    • Complete rename of functions, methods and attributes
    • Context managers for the with statement
    • Unification of dependency handling
    • Other changes
    • Porting your applications to python-apt 0.8
• Python APT Library
  • apt_pkg — The low-level bindings for apt-pkg
    • Module Initialization
    • Working with the cache
      • Improve performance with ActionGroup
      • Resolving Dependencies
      • Package
        • Example:
      • Version
      • Dependency
        • Example: Find all missing dependencies
      • Description
    • Index Files
    • Records
    • The Acquire interface
    • Hashes
    • Debian control files
    • Dependencies
    • Configuration
    • Locking
    • Other classes
    • String functions
    • Module Constants
      • Package States
      • Installed states
      • Priorities
      • Select states
      • Build information
  • apt_inst - Working with local Debian packages
    • Checking packages
    • Listing contents
      • Callback
    • Extracting contents
    • Example: Emulating dpkg --extract
    • Example: Emulating dpkg --contents
    • Example: Emulating dpkg --info
  • apt.cache — The Cache class
    • The Cache class
      • Example
    • Working with Filters
      • Example
    • Exceptions
  • apt.cdrom - Functionality like in apt-cdrom
  • apt.debfile — Classes related to debian package files
    • Binary packages
    • Source packages
  • apt.package — Classes for package handling
    • The Package class
    • The Version class
    • Dependency Information
    • Origin Information
    • Examples
  • apt.progress.text — Progress reporting for text interfaces
    • Acquire Progress Reporting
    • CD-ROM Progress Reporting
    • Operation Progress Reporting
  • apt.progress.gtk2 — Progress reporting for GTK+ interfaces
    • GObject progress classes
    • GTK+ Class
    • Example
  • apt.progress.qt4 — Progress reporting for Qt4 interfaces
  • 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
• Tutorials
  • Writing your own apt-cdrom
    • Basics
    • Advcaned example with command-line parsing
  • Contributing to python-apt
    • Available branches
    • C++ Coding style
      • C++ dialect
      • Code lay-out
      • Naming conventions
      • Documentation Strings
    • Python Coding Style
    • Submitting your patch
    • Documentation updates
    • Example patch session
• Python APT and C++
  • Python APT C++ API
  • Embedding Python APT

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• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page