APT commands

apt-get commands

Update information about repositories

Initially need to get indexes, which contains actual sets of packages and links to it.

Note: This command need to run every time when:

• you searching new version of package
• you installing package
• you upgrade installed packages
• you use apt-cache

This running with next command:

# apt-get update

Example of running:

# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/x86_64 release [4223B]
Get:2 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/x86_64-i586 release [1665B]
Get:3 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/noarch release [2844B]
Fetched 8732B in 0s (89.8kB/s)
Get:1 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/x86_64/classic pkglist [23.8MB]
Get:2 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/x86_64/classic release [137B]
Get:3 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/x86_64-i586/classic pkglist [17.4MB]
Get:4 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/x86_64-i586/classic release [142B]
Get:5 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/noarch/classic pkglist [7164kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.altlinux.org p10/branch/noarch/classic release [137B]
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

After running of this command, apt will update own cache of new information.