On 7/7/19 4:29 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > I never heard of the difference between apt-get and apt (no -get). Is > this new? I found this article that explains the differences between apt and apt-get. https://itsfoss.com/apt-vs-apt-get-difference/ The Debian Wiki has a section on apt as well. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageManagement#Apt Apt exists to simplify usage of apt-get, by consolidating the most used options across the different "apt-get" and "apt-cache" commands into a single interface. IE instead of having to remember that you use "apt-cache search" instead of "apt-get search" you can just use "apt search". "apt-get dist-upgrade" becomes "apt full-upgrade". Things like that Apt also has a few new commands such as "apt list" which can be used in some nifty ways such as: $ apt list --upgradable To see which packages can be upgraded $ apt list --installed To see which packages are installed $ apt list foo To see which packages match the criteria $ apt list | grep foo To pipe the results of apt list into grep, to do some grep magic. Apt-get and Apt-cache still work, and there are still specific functions that they do that apt itself doesn't, but for day-to-day tasks apt works very well, and in many ways works easier and better than apt-get and apt-cache. Cheers. -Matt
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