Advanced Package Tool

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Advanced Package Tool (APT) is a collection of tools to install software on Debian-based system.

It has the following tools:

• apt-cache – searching for software and cleaning apt's cache
• apt-cdrom
• apt-config
• apt-extracttemplates
• apt-ftparchive
• apt-get – installing / removing software
• apt-sortpkgs

APT is also available for RPM-based distributions.