Install the latest release of APT (Advanced Package Tool) on Ubuntu. How to install APT 1.1.5 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. APT (Advanced Package Tool) is the default package manager of Debian, Ubuntu and their derivative systems.
APT is a management system for software packages. Originally written for Debian and the deb package format, APT was ported and became APT-RPM to manage the rpm(8) package format. APT-RPM can be used by any RPM-based distribution, such as Conectiva, Red Hat, SUSE, ALT-Linux, etc.
APT (Advanced Package Tool)
APT 1.1.5 is the latest version available of the Advance Package Tool. APT 1.1.5 brings the following changes:
- Do not swap required and important in pkgCache::Priority() Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo for discovering this
- Convert package names from Packages files to lower case
- test framework: Correctly generate new paths in noopchroot
- debian/apt.auto-removal.sh: Adjust -dbg exclusion for multi-arch
- pkgcache: Make hash arch-independent using fixed size integer
- test-apt-download-progress: Run the https test multiple times
- update symbols files to 1.1.4 state of affairs
- parse .diff/Index hashes in reverse order
- redirect which stderr to /dev/null for consistency
- show a more descriptive error for weak Release files
- support regex and co in ‘apt-cache policy $pkg’ again
- non-existing directories don’t need to be cleaned
- fix incorrect Korean translation of “manually” and “automatically”
- mention APT::AutoRemove::{Recommends,Suggests}Important option
Usage: apt [options] command
- list – list packages based on package names
- search – search in package descriptions
- show – show package details
- update – update list of available packages
- install – install packages
- remove – remove packages
- upgrade – upgrade the system by installing/upgrading packages
- full-upgrade – upgrade the system by removing/installing/upgrading packages
- edit-sources – edit the source information file
Install APT 1.1.5 on Ubuntu
The latest version of APT package manager can be installed via running the below given commands in Terminal. Please note that the PPA download and install the APT upstream builds. The python-apt builds should be directly usable. The APT builds might break small things, as they do not contain Ubuntu integration. Currently, that’s basically just the cron job not running update-apt-xapian-index and apt-key net-update. The builds are provided for testing only, without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable laws. They may be unsuitable for production use.
The APT team only build for the newest Ubuntu development version and maybe the current stable release, because these packages are for developers only.
The latest version of the APT package manager can be insatleld via PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deity/sid
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install apt
https://launchpad.net/~deity/+archive/ubuntu/sid