<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>APT Files</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="APT Files"/> <link rel="next" href="ch1.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"/> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">APT Files</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"> </td> <th width="60%" align="center"> </th> <td align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch1.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div xml:lang="en" class="book"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h1 class="title"><a id="idp1242890988"/>APT Files</h1> </div> <div> <div class="authorgroup"> <div class="author"> <h3 class="author">Jason Gunthorpe</h3> <code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:jgg@debian.org">jgg@debian.org</a>></code> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class="releaseinfo">Version 1.4.6</p> <hr xmlns=""/> </div> <div> <p class="copyright">Copyright © 1998-1999 Jason Gunthorpe</p> </div> <div> <div class="legalnotice"> <a id="idp1244624092"/> <p class="legalnotice-title"> <strong>License Notice</strong> </p> <p> "APT" and this document are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. </p> <p> For more details, on Debian systems, see the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license. </p> </div> </div> <div> <div class="abstract"> <p class="title"> <strong>Abstract</strong> </p> <p> This document describes the complete implementation and format of the installed APT directory structure. It also serves as guide to how APT views the Debian archive. </p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> </div> <div class="toc"> <p> <strong>Table of Contents</strong> </p> <dl class="toc"> <dt> <span class="chapter"> <a href="ch1.html">1. Introduction</a> </span> </dt> <dd> <dl> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch1.html#s1.1">1.1. General</a> </span> </dt> </dl> </dd> <dt> <span class="chapter"> <a href="ch2.html">2. Files</a> </span> </dt> <dd> <dl> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.1">2.1. Files and fragment directories in /etc/apt</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.2">2.2. Distribution Source list (sources.list)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.3">2.3. Extended States File (extended_states)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.4">2.4. Binary Package Cache (srcpkgcache.bin and pkgcache.bin)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.5">2.5. Downloads Directory (archives)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.6">2.6. The Methods Directory (/usr/lib/apt/methods)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.7">2.7. The Configuration File (/etc/apt/apt.conf)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.8">2.8. The trusted.gpg File (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg)</a> </span> </dt> <dt> <span class="section"> <a href="ch2.html#s2.9">2.9. The Release File</a> </span> </dt> </dl> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td align="left"> </td> <td align="center"> </td> <td align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch1.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="center"> </td> <td align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 1. Introduction</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>