Section 8: administration and privileged commands
aptitude – high-level interface to the package manager Synopsis aptitude [<options>…] {autoclean | clean | forget-new | keep-all | update} aptitude [<options>…] {full-upgrade | safe-upgrade} [<packages>…] aptitude [<options>…] {build-dep | build-depends | changelog | download | forbid-version | hold | install | markauto | purge | reinstall | remove | show | unhold | unmarkauto…
apt – command-line interface Synopsis apt [-h] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] [-t=target_release] [-a=architecture] {list | search | show | update | install pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | remove pkg… | upgrade | full-upgrade | edit-sources | {-v | –version} | {-h | –help}} Description apt provides a high-level commandline interface for the package management system. It is…
apt-secure – Archive authentication support for APT Description Starting with version 0.6, APT contains code that does signature checking of the Release file for all repositories. This ensures that data like packages in the archive can’t be modified by people who have no access to the Release file signing key. Starting with version 1.1 APT…
apt-mark – show, set and unset various settings for a package Synopsis apt-mark {-f=filename | {auto | manual} pkg… | {showauto | showmanual} [pkg…] } | {-v | –version} | {-h | –help} apt-mark {hold | unhold | install | remove | purge} pkg… | {showhold | showinstall | showremove | showpurge} [pkg…] Description apt-mark can be used as…
apt-key – Deprecated APT key management utility Synopsis apt-key [–keyring filename] {add filename | del keyid | export keyid | exportall | list | finger | adv | update | net-update | {-v | –version} | {-h | –help}} Description apt-key is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to authenticate packages. Packages which have been…
apt-get – APT package handling utility — command-line interface Synopsis apt-get [-asqdyfmubV] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] [-t=target_release] [-a=architecture] {update | upgrade | dselect-upgrade | dist-upgrade | install pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | remove pkg… | purge pkg… | source pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | build-dep pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | download pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | check…
apt-config – APT Configuration Query program Synopsis apt-config [–empty] [–format ‘%f "%v";%n’] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] {shell | dump | {-v | –version} | {-h | –help}} Description apt-config is an internal program used by various portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses the main configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf in a manner that is…
apt-clone – manual page for apt-clone 0.2 Description usage: apt-clone [-h] [–debug] {info,clone,restore,restore-new-distro} … Clone/restore package info of a debian based system or chroot environment. optional arguments: -h, –help show help message for apt-clone. Alternatively –help will output command specific help for any of the {info,clone,restore,restore-new-distro} commands. –debug enable debug output Commands: {info,clone,restore,restore-new-distro} info Show…
apt-cdrom – APT CD-ROM management utility Synopsis apt-cdrom [-rmfan] [-d=cdrom_mount_point] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] {add | ident | {-v | –version} | {-h | –help}} Description apt-cdrom is used to add a new CD-ROM to APT’s list of available sources. apt-cdrom takes care of determining the structure of the disc as well as correcting for several possible…
apt-cache – query the APT cache Synopsis apt-cache [-agipns] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] {gencaches | showpkg pkg… | showsrc pkg… | stats | dump | dumpavail | unmet | search regex… | show pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | depends pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | rdepends pkg [{=pkg_version_number | /target_release}]… | pkgnames [prefix] | dotty pkg [{=pkg_version_number |…
applygnupgdefaults – Run gpgconf –apply-defaults for all users. Synopsis applygnupgdefaults Description This script is a wrapper around gpgconf to run it with the command –apply-defaults for all real users with an existing GnuPG home directory. Admins might want to use this script to update he GnuPG configuration files for all users after ‘/etc/gnupg/gpgconf.conf‘ has been…
applydeltarpm – reconstruct an rpm from a deltarpm Synopsis applydeltarpm [-v] [-p] [-r oldrpm] deltarpm newrpm applydeltarpm -c|-C deltarpm applydeltarpm [-c|-C] -s sequence applydeltarpm -i deltarpm Description applydeltarpm applies a binary delta to either an old rpm or to on-disk data to re-create a new rpm. The old rpm can be specified with the -r…
applydeltaiso – reconstruct an iso from the old iso and the deltaiso Synopsis applydeltaiso oldiso deltaiso newiso Description applydeltaiso applies a deltaiso to oldiso to re-create newiso. When specifying oldiso, you can specify a device (such as /dev/dvd). See Also makedeltaiso(8) Author Michael Schroeder <mls [at] suse.de>
appliance-creator, creates pre-installed appliance images and meta-data. Synopsis appliance-creator [OPTIONS] Description appliance-creator creates pre-installed appliance images from kickstart files. Kickstart files contain the information about packages and configurations that are built into the image. Options -h, –help Shows a help message and exits. Image Options These options define the created appliance image. -c KSCFG, –config=KSCFG…
apphbd – Application Heartbeat Monitor for High-Availability Linux Synopsis apphbd [ -srkdh ] [ -c configure file ] Description apphbd is a basic application heartbeat monitor daemon for Linux-HA. A group of Application Heartbeat APIs are defined for this heartbeat monitoring service. Applications may register with the daemon in order to be monitored. If an…
aa-status – display various information about the current AppArmor policy. Synopsis aa-status [option] Description aa-status will report various aspects of the current state of AppArmor confinement. By default, it displays the same information as if the –verbose argument were given. A sample of what this looks like is: apparmor module is loaded. 110 profiles are…
apparmor_parser – loads AppArmor profiles into the kernel Synopsis apparmor_parser [options] <command> [profiles]… apparmor_parser [options] <command> apparmor_parser [-hv] [–help] [–version] Description apparmor_parser is used as a general tool to compile, and manage AppArmor policy, including loading new apparmor.d(5) profiles into the Linux kernel. AppArmor profiles restrict the operations available to processes. The profiles are loaded…
apmd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the apmd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the apmd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The apmd processes execute with the apmd_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
apm_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the apm processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the apm processes via flexible mandatory access control. The apm processes execute with the apm_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
apgd – server that generates several random passwords Synopsis apgd [-a algorithm] [-M mode] [-E char_string] [-n num_of_pass] [-m min_pass_len] [-x max_pass_len] [-r dictfile] [-b filter_file] [-p min_substr_len] [-k] [-t] [-l] Description apgd program is a server that supports Password Generation Protocol described in RFC972. It uses several password generation algorithms (currently two) and a…