[Apt-Rpm] API reference docs for libapt-pkg

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Sep 3 23:29:23 PDT 2007


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 sreekumar.sivakumar at wipro.com wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I am planning to use apt-rpm in my app for installation/up gradation of
> custom as well as standard open source components. Happened to see a few
> front ends (e.g.: Synaptic) utilizing libapt-pkg API for similar
> purpose, but couldn't find an API reference/manual explaining the API.
>
> Can anyone please point me to some good documentation on the API?

I'm afraid no such thing exists. The best way is to look at existing 
software using libapt-pkg - Synaptic is one, but it complicates things by 
building it's own "library" on top of the libapt-pkg. For the raw 
libapt-pkg, it's probably best to study apt-get and apt-cache sources.

 	- Panu -



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