The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
NAME apt-transport-mirror – APT transport for more automated mirror selection DESCRIPTION This APT transport isn’t implementing a protocol to access local or remote repositories on its own, but acquires a mirrorlist and redirects all requests to the mirror(s) picked from this list, accessing them via other transports like apt-transport-http(1). The basic functionality has been available…
NAME apt-transport-https – APT transport for downloading via the HTTP Secure protocol (HTTPS) DESCRIPTION This APT transport allows the use of repositories accessed via the HTTP Secure protocol (HTTPS), also referred to as HTTP over TLS. It is available by default since apt 1.5 and was available before that in the package apt-transport-https. Note that…
NAME apt-transport-http – APT transport for downloading via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) DESCRIPTION This APT transport allows the use of repositories accessed via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is available by default and probably the most used of all transports. Note that a transport is never called directly by a user but used…
NAME apt-sortpkgs – Utility to sort package index files SYNOPSIS apt-sortpkgs [-s] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] filename… {-v | –version} {-h | –help} DESCRIPTION apt-sortpkgs will take an index file (source index or package index) and sort the records so that they are ordered by the package name. It will also sort the internal fields of each…
NAME apt-mirror – apt sources mirroring tool SYNOPSIS apt-mirror [configfile] DESCRIPTION A small and efficient tool that lets you mirror a part of or the whole Debian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt sources. Main features: * It uses a config similar to apts sources.list * It’s fully pool comply * It supports multithreaded downloading * It supports multiple architectures…
NAME apt – annotation processing tool SYNOPSIS apt [-classpath classpath] [-sourcepath sourcepath] [-d directory] [-s directory] [-factorypath path] [-factory class] [-print] [-nocompile] [-Akey[=val] …] [javac option] sourcefiles [@files] PARAMETERS Options may be in any order. For a discussion of parameters which apply to a specific option, see OPTIONS below. sourcefiles Zero or more source files…
apt – annotation processing tool Synopsisapt [-classpath classpath] [-sourcepath sourcepath] [-d directory] [-s directory] [-factorypath path] [-factory class] [-print] [-nocompile] [-Akey[=val] …] [javac option] sourcefiles [@files] ParametersOptions may be in any order. For a discussion of parameters which apply to a specific option, see OPTIONS below. sourcefiles Zero or more source files to be processed….
apt – annotation processing tool Synopsisapt [-classpath classpath] [-sourcepath sourcepath] [-d directory] [-s directory] [-factorypath path] [-factory class] [-print] [-nocompile] [-Akey[=val] …] [javac option] sourcefiles [@files] ParametersOptions may be in any order. For a discussion of parameters which apply to a specific option, see OPTIONS below. sourcefiles Zero or more source files to be processed….
NAME apt-ftparchive – Utility to generate index files SYNOPSIS apt-ftparchive [-dsq] [–md5] [–delink] [–readonly] [–contents] [–arch architecture] [-o=config_string] [-c=config_file] {packages path… [override-file [pathprefix]] | sources path… [override-file [pathprefix]] | contents path | release path | generate config_file section… | clean config_file | {-v | –version} | {-h | –help}} DESCRIPTION apt-ftparchive is the command line tool that generates the index files that APT uses to access a…
NAME apt-file — APT package searching utility — command-line interface SYNOPSIS apt-file [options] search pattern apt-file [options] show package DESCRIPTION apt-file is a command line tool for searching files in packages for the APT package management system. Some actions are required to run the search: find Alias for search. list List the contents of a…
NAME apt-extracttemplates – Utility to extract debconf config and templates from Debian packages SYNOPSIS apt-extracttemplates [-t=temporary_directory] filename… {-v | –version} {-h | –help} DESCRIPTION apt-extracttemplates will take one or more Debian package files as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated config scripts and template files. For each passed in package that…
NAME add-apt-repository – Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one SYNOPSIS add-apt-repository [OPTIONS] [LINE] DESCRIPTION add-apt-repository is a script which adds an external APT repository to either /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ or removes an already existing repository. OPTIONS Note that the –list, –ppa, –cloud, –uri, –sourceslist, and…
NAME apropos – search the manual page names and descriptions SYNOPSIS apropos [-dalv?V] [-e|-w|-r] [-s list] [-m system[,…]] [-M path] [-L locale] [-C file] keyword … DESCRIPTION Each manual page has a short description available within it. apropos searches the descriptions for instances of keyword. keyword is usually a regular expression, as if (-r) was…
NAME appstreamcli – Handle AppStream metadata formats and query AppStream data SYNOPSIS appstreamcli [COMMAND] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the appstreamcli command. appstreamcli is a small helper tool to work with AppStream metadata and access the AppStream component index from the command-line. The AppStream component index contains a list of all available software components…
NAME appstream-util – Manipulate AppStream, AppData and MetaInfo metadata SYNOPSIS appstream-util [OPTION…] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the appstream-util command. appstream-util allows you to manipulate and validate AppStream, AppData and MetaInfo for syntax, formatting and style guidelines. AUTHOR This manual page was written by Richard Hughes <richard [at] hughsie.com>. Index
NAME appstream-compose – Generate AppStream metadata SYNOPSIS appstream-compose [OPTION…] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the appstream-compose command. appstream-compose is a simple app that takes a prefix (default /usr) and a set of application names. It looks for appdata, metainfo, desktop and icon files with that basename in $prefix/share/[appdata|metainfo|applications|icons] and generates appstream xml files and…
NAME appres – list X application resource database SYNOPSIS appres [class [instance]] [-1] [-V] [toolkitoptions] DESCRIPTION The appres program prints the resources seen by an application (or subhierarchy of an application) with the specified class and instance names. It can be used to determine which resources a particular program will load. For example, % appres…
NAME apport-unpack – extract the fields of a problem report to separate files SYNOPSIS apport-unpack report target-directory DESCRIPTION A problem report, as produced by apport is a single file with a set of key/value pairs in the RFC822 syntax. This tool disassembles a report such that the value of each entry is written into a…
NAME apport-bug, apport-collect – file a bug report using Apport, or update an existing report SYNOPSIS apport-bug apport-bug symptom | pid | package | program path | .apport/.crash file apport-collect report-number DESCRIPTION apport-bug reports problems to your distribution’s bug tracking system, using Apport to collect a lot of local information about your system to help…
NAME apport-cli, apport-gtk, apport-kde – Apport user interfaces for reporting problems SYNOPSIS apport-cli apport-cli [ –save file ] symptom | pid | package | program path | .apport/.crash file apport-cli -f apport-cli -f -p package -P pid apport-cli -u report-number Same options/arguments for apport-gtk and apport-kde. DESCRIPTION apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and…