Python APT Documentation contents

Contents:

• What’s new in python-apt
  • What’s New In python-apt 0.7.100
    • Support for Python 3
    • Real classes in apt_pkg
    • Complete rename of functions, methods and attributes
    • Context managers for the with statement
    • Unification of dependency handling
    • C++ headers
    • Redesign of apt_inst
    • Other changes
    • Porting your applications to the new python-apt API
  • What’s New In python-apt 0.8
    • Removal of old API
    • Multi-arch support
    • Features for mancoosi
    • Other changes
• Python APT Library
  • apt_pkg — The low-level bindings for apt-pkg
    • Module Initialization
    • Working with the cache
      • Managing the cache with DepCache
      • Installing with PackageManager
      • Installation ordering with OrderList
      • Improve performance with ActionGroup
      • Resolving Dependencies with ProblemResolver
      • Group of packages with the same name
      • Package information
        • Example:
      • Version
      • Dependency
        • Example: Find all missing dependencies
      • Description
      • Package Pinning with Policy
    • Index Files
    • Records (Release files, Packages, Sources)
    • The Acquire interface
    • Hashes
    • Debian control files
    • Dependencies
    • Configuration and Command-line parsing
    • Locking
    • Other classes
    • String functions
    • Module Constants
      • Package States
      • Installed states
      • Priorities
      • Package selection states
      • Build information
  • apt_inst - Working with local Debian packages
    • AR Archives
    • Debian Packages
    • Tar Archives
    • Deprecated functions
  • apt.cache — The Cache class
    • The Cache class
      • Example
    • Working with Filters
      • Example
    • The ProblemResolver class
    • Exceptions
  • apt.cdrom - Functionality like in apt-cdrom
  • apt.debfile — Classes related to debian package files
    • Binary packages
    • Source packages
  • apt.package — Classes for package handling
    • The Package class
    • The Version class
    • Dependency Information
    • Origin Information
    • The Record class
    • Examples
  • apt.progress.base — Abstract classes for progress reporting
    • AcquireProgress
    • CdromProgress
    • OpProgress
    • InstallProgress
  • apt.progress.text — Progress reporting for text interfaces
    • Acquire Progress Reporting
    • CD-ROM Progress Reporting
    • Operation Progress Reporting
  • apt.progress.gtk2 — Progress reporting for GTK+ interfaces
    • GObject progress classes
    • GTK+ Widget
    • Example
  • aptsources.distinfo — provide meta information for distro repositories
  • aptsources.distro — Distribution abstraction of the sources.list
  • aptsources.sourceslist — Provide an abstraction of the sources.list
• Tutorials
  • Writing your own apt-cdrom
    • Basics
    • Advanced example with command-line parsing
  • Doing stuff apt-get does
    • Printing the URIs of all index files
  • Contributing to python-apt
    • Available branches
      • Distribution branches
      • Important Personal branches
    • C++ Coding style
      • C++ dialect
      • Code lay-out
      • Naming conventions
      • Documentation Strings
    • Python Coding Style
    • Submitting your patch
    • Documentation updates
    • Example patch session
• Python APT and C++
  • Python APT C++ API
    • Acquire (pkgAcquire)
    • AcquireFile (pkgAcqFile)
    • AcquireItem (pkgAcquire::Item)
    • AcquireItemDesc (pkgAcquire::ItemDesc)
    • AcquireWorker (pkgAcquire::Worker)
    • ActionGroup (pkgDepCache::ActionGroup)
    • Cache (pkgCache)
    • CacheFile (pkgCacheFile)
    • Cdrom (pkgCdrom)
    • Configuration (Configuration)
    • DepCache (pkgDepCache)
    • Dependency (pkgCache::DepIterator)
    • Description (pkgCache::DescIterator)
    • Group (pkgCache::GrpIterator)
    • Hashes (Hashes)
    • HashString (HashString)
    • IndexRecords (indexRecords)
    • MetaIndex (metaIndex)
    • Package (pkgCache::PkgIterator)
    • PackageFile (pkgCache::PkgFileIterator)
    • IndexFile (pkgIndexFile)
    • OrderList (pkgOrderList)
    • PackageManager (pkgPackageManager)
    • Policy (pkgPolicy)
    • ProblemResolver (pkgProblemResolver)
    • SourceList (pkgSourceList)
    • TagFile (pkgTagFile)
    • TagSection (pkgTagSection)
    • Version (pkgCache::VerIterator)
  • Embedding Python APT
    • Basics
    • Longer example

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• Module Index
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