linux command: apt-get

apt-get
apt 2.2.4 (amd64)
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]

apt-get is a command line interface for retrieval of packages
and information about them from authenticated sources and
for installation, upgrade and removal of packages together
with their dependencies.

Most used commands:

• update - Retrieve new lists of packages
• upgrade - Perform an upgrade
• install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
• reinstall - Reinstall packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
• remove - Remove packages
• purge - Remove packages and config files
• autoremove - Remove automatically all unused packages
• dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)
• dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
• build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
• satisfy - Satisfy dependency strings
• clean - Erase downloaded archive files
• autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
• check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
• source - Download source archives
• download - Download the binary package into the current directory
• changelog - Download and display the changelog for the given package

See apt-get(8) for more information about the available commands.
Configuration options and syntax is detailed in apt.conf(5).
Information about how to configure sources can be found in sources.list(5).
Package and version choices can be expressed via apt_preferences(5).
Security details are available in apt-secure(8).
This APT has Super Cow Powers.