Advanced Package Tool.
How Do I List All Available Packages?
$ apt-cache pkgnames
How Do I Find Out Package Name and Description of Software?
$ apt-cache search vsftpd
$ apt-cache pkgnames vsftpd
How Do I Check Package Information?
$ apt-cache show netcat
How Do I Check Dependencies for Specific Packages?
$ apt-cache showpkg vsftpd
How Do I Check statistics of Cache
$ apt-cache stats
How to Update System Packages
$ sudo apt-get update
How to Upgrade Software Packages
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
How Do I Install or Upgrade Specific Packages?
$ sudo apt-get install netcat
How I can Install Multiple Packages?
$ sudo apt-get install nethogs goaccess
How to Install Several Packages using Wildcard
$ sudo apt-get install '*name*'
How to install Packages without Upgrading
$ sudo apt-get install packageName --no-upgrade
How to Upgrade Only Specific Packages
$ sudo apt-get install packageName --only-upgrade
How Do I Install Specific Package Version?
$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd=2.3.5-3ubuntu1
How Do I Remove Packages Without Configuration
$ sudo apt-get remove vsftpd
How Do I Completely Remove Packages
$ sudo apt-get purge vsftpd
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge vsftpd
How I Can Clean Up Disk Space
$ sudo apt-get clean
How Do I Download Only Source Code of Package
$ sudo apt-get --download-only source vsftpd
How Can I Download and Unpack a Package
$ sudo apt-get source vsftpd
How Can I Download, Unpack and Compile a Package
$ sudo apt-get --compile source goaccess
How Do I Download a Package Without Installing
$ sudo apt-get download nethogs
How Do I Check Change Log of Package?
$ sudo apt-get changelog vsftpd
How Do I Check Broken Dependencies?
$ sudo apt-get check
How Do I Search and Build Dependencies?
$ sudo apt-get build-dep netcat
How I Can Auto clean Apt-Get Cache?
$ sudo apt-get autoclean
How I Can Auto remove Installed Packages?
$ sudo apt-get autoremove vsftpd