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apt get remove foo

  To remove the foo package and its configuration files from your system, run:

apt get   purge remove foo

  To upgrade all the packages on your system to a new Debian GNU/Linux release, run:

apt get dist upgrade

Note that you must be logged as root to perform any commands that modify the system pack 

ages.

The apt tool suite also includes the

apt cache

tool to query the package lists. You can use

it to find packages providing specific functionality through simple text or regular expression

queries and through queries of dependencies in the package management system. Some com 

mon ways to use

apt cache

are:

  To find packages whose description contain word:

apt cache search

word

  To print the detailed information of a package:

apt cache show

package

  To print the packages a given package depends on:

apt cache depends

package

  To print detailed information of the versions available for a package and the packages

that reverse depends on it:

apt cache showpkg

package

For more information, install

apt

package and read

apt get(8)

,

sources.list(5)

and install the

apt doc

package and read

/usr/share/doc/apt doc/guide.html

/index.html

.