What is a Package manager?
Package Manager is a tool (either CLI tool or GUI tool) that helps in managing the packages and software in an operating system. Package Manager provides services like Configuration, Installation, Removing/Uninstalling/Erasing of any kind of software packages. Mostly these tools are linked with online repositories where different software packages are stored related to the operating system. It is just like the Google Play Store in mobiles and Microsoft Store in Windows. But it is much easier to manage these tools mostly based on Linux operating system. The above-mentioned name is also package management tools. Some are advance and structured and some are limited.
What is APT?
apt is a CLI package manager tool which after the apt-get and apt-cache but this tool is much more structured and advance. This tool has omitted the requirement to get and cache. This could perform all the tasks to get and cache as well as can perform some more advance and stable commands.
What is APT-GET/APT?
apt-get is a CLI package management tool. This tool is Debian based and used in different Debian based operating systems like Ubuntu, Kali Linux, etc. Even though both apt and apt-get tool is available in every Debian based os.
Difference Between APT, APT-GET, APT-CACHE and APT-CONFIG
apt, apt-get, apt-cache, and apt-config lie in some specific roles within the Debian package management system. Apt (Advanced Package Tool) is a high-level interface for managing software packages combining the functionalities of apt-get and apt-cache. In this article, we discuss on each component and its play of distinct roles in Debian systems.
Table of Content
- What is Package manager?
- Using apt-get/apt command
- APT-CACHE
- APT-CONFIG
- What is the difference between apt cache and apt file?
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