this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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[–] NateSwift@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

apt is a newer tool that combines the functionality of apt-get and apt-cache. It’s not as backwards compatible but has a nicer more human readable output

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

apt is a wrapper of a wrapper for dpkg.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's like dnf is a wrapper for yum which is a wrapper for rpm.