Hi, I just read online that you can apparently run apt --fix-broken install.

I wanted to know, what that really does, but both apt --help and man apt only show a high-level summary of the subcommands and flags. The --fix-broken flag is never mentioned, and presumably many others neither.

Is there some way to access documentation for all subcommands and flags?

  • this_is_router@feddit.de
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    3 months ago

    In the past there were mutliple tools: apt-cache (searching packages), apt-get (managing packages), apt-file (searching for files belonging to packages), apt-key (managing repository keys)…

    A few years ago some developers created apt to combine these multiple tools into the single program called apt. Both tools (the old apt-… and the new apt) use dpkg in the backend to install and remove packages. Looks like apt hasn’t done its documentation homework.