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- Aptitude On-Line Help
-
- Use the arrow keys and PageUp/PageDown to view this help; type "q"
- to leave it.
-
- The following keys are available by default in the aptitude information
- screens. Other keys are available; consult the README for a list of these.
-
- "q": Quit.
- "?": Display this screen.
-
- "f": Clear the list of "new" packages ('f' for "forget").
-
- Up or "k": Move the selection up.
- Down or "j": Move the selection down.
- Page-Up or
- Control-b: Move the selection up by a screenful of packages.
- Page-Down or
- Control-f: Move the selection down by a screenful of packages.
- Home or
- Control-a: Move the selection to the first package in the list.
- End or
- Control-e: Move the selection to the last package in the list.
- "^": Move the selection to the parent of the current item.
- Enter: Expand or collapse a group of packages.
- "[": Expand a group of packages and all its subgroups.
- "]": Collapse a group of packages and all its subgroups.
-
- Control-t: Activate or deactivate the menu.
- "F6": Move to the next tab of the main display.
- "F7": Move to the previous tab of the main display.
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- Enter: View information about a package.
- "C": View a package's changelog.
- "+": Install or upgrade a package, or remove its held state.
- "-": Remove a package.
- "=": Hold a package in its current version to prevent upgrades.
- ":": Keep a package at its current version. Unlike hold, this
- will not prevent future upgrades.
- "_": Request that a package and all its conffiles be removed.
- "L": Request that a package be reinstalled.
- "M": Mark a package as being automatically installed.
- Automatically installed packages are removed if no
- manually installed package requires them.
- "m": Mark a package as being manually installed.
- "F": Forbid a package from being automatically upgraded to
- a particular version; newer versions will be automatically
- installed.
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- "u": Update the lists of available packages.
- "U": Mark all upgradable packages to be upgraded.
- "g": Perform all pending installations, removals, and upgrades.
-
- Control-u: Undo the last action or set of actions.
- "/": Perform a search. (on the name of the package by default;
- see the README/User's Manual for more information).
- "\": Perform a backwards search.
- "n": Repeat the last search.
- "N": Repeat the last search, but in the opposite direction.
- "b": Search for the next broken package.
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- "v": Show the available versions of a package.
- "d": Show the dependencies of a package.
- "r": Show the packages depending on a given package.
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- "D": Display or hide the package information area.
- "a": Scroll the package information area up.
- "z": Scroll the package information area down.
- "i": Cycle through the package information views.
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- ",": View the previous dependency solution.
- ".": View the next dependency solution, generating a new solution
- if necessary.
- "<": View the first dependency solution.
- ">": View the last dependency solution.
-
- In the interactive resolver:
- "a": Approve an action, causing it to always be chosen over
- alternatives, or cancel an approval.
- "r": Reject an action, causing it to never be chosen, or
- cancel a rejection.
-
-
- Packages in the package list are displayed like this by default:
- idA libsmbclient -2220kB 3.0.25a-1 3.0.25a-2
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- The three characters on the left-hand side of the display determine the
- current state of the package. The first letter is the "state" flag,
- the second letter is the "action" flag, and the third letter is the
- "automatic" flag. They are followed by the package name, the change
- in disk space attributed to it, and finally the current and available
- versions of the package.
-
-
- The "state" flag is one of the following:
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- v - virtual
- B - broken
- u - "unpacked"
- C - half-configured
- H - half-installed
- c - removed, but config-files still present (ie, not purged)
- i - installed
- E - internal error (should not happen)
-
- The "action" flag is one of the following:
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- h - hold
- p - purge
- d - delete (remove)
- B - broken
- i - install
- r - reinstall
- u - upgrade
- F - the available upgrade has been forbidden via "F"
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- If present, the "automatic" flag is "A", indicating that the package
- was automatically installed and will be removed when nothing depends
- on it.
-
-
- So, in the example above, libsmbclient is an automatically installed
- package. It could be upgraded from version 3.0.25a-1 to version
- 3.0.25a-2, but instead it will be deleted, freeing up 2220 kilobytes
- of disk space.
-