The power of the command line: installing software with APT and Snap
The App Center provides a great, intuitive interface for finding and installing applications. Let’s explore how we can do that with our trusty command line.
For Debian packages, APT is the tool for finding and installing software from the Ubuntu software repositories. It’s important to understand that APT relies on a local package cache for searches and dependency resolution. What does that mean? Well, APT downloads data from all configured software repositories to use later when searching, installing, or upgrading packages. This package cache includes a list of all software available in the repositories, including information such as version, description, dependencies, and much more.
Let’s take a look at some common ways you may use APT with the command line.
apt show
The apt show command displays information in the package cache. The following example shows the information included...
