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APT Files

Abstract

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.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © Jason Gunthorpe, 1998-1999.

"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.

For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.

Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 General
• 2 Files
  • 2.1 Distribution Source list (sources.list)
  • 2.2 Extra Status File (xstatus)
  • 2.3 Binary Package Cache (pkgcache.bin)
  • 2.4 Downloads Directory (archives)
  • 2.5 The Methods Directory (/usr/lib/apt/methods)
  • 2.6 The Mirror List
  • 2.7 The Release File