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Python APT Library
==================
Python APT's library provides access to almost every functionality supported
by the underlying apt-pkg and apt-inst libraries. This means that it is
possible to rewrite frontend programs like apt-cdrom in Python, and this is
relatively easy, as can be seen in e.g. :doc:`../tutorials/apt-cdrom`.
When going through the library, the first two modules are :mod:`apt_pkg` and
:mod:`apt_inst`. These modules are more or less straight bindings to the
apt-pkg and apt-inst libraries and the base for the rest of python-apt.
Going forward, the :mod:`apt` package appears. This package is using
:mod:`apt_pkg` and :mod:`apt_inst` to provide easy to use ways to manipulate
the cache, fetch packages, or install new packages. It also provides useful
progress classes, currently only for text interfaces. The last package is
:mod:`aptsources`. The aptsources package provides classes and functions to
read files like :file:`/etc/apt/sources.list` and to modify them.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
apt_pkg
apt_inst
apt.cache
apt.cdrom
apt.debfile
apt.package
apt.progress.base
apt.progress.text
aptsources.distinfo
aptsources.distro
aptsources.sourceslist
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