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NAME

6       apt-cudf-get - wrapper for calling apt-get with external solvers
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SYNOPSIS

9       apt-cudf-get [arguments]
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DESCRIPTION

12       apt-cudf-get is a wrapper that allows one to invoke apt-get with
13       external solvers while ignoring apt's pinning.
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15       All options are passed on to apt-get.
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17       Normally, apt uses so-called pinning to select a candidate version of a
18       package in case there are several versions available. This also holds
19       when calling apt-get with external solvers. However, when it is not
20       possible to find a solution under this constraint, it may be useful to
21       relax pinning and to allow the external solver to choose among all
22       available versions of packages in order to satisfy dependencies, not
23       only those that are selected by the pinning.  This is precisely what
24       apt-cudf-get does.
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26       Note that, when using an external solver, the proposed solution may
27       contain any available version of the packages that are given as
28       arguments to install on the command line without specifying a version
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33           apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml
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35       may propose to install any available version of ocaml, while
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37           apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml=4.01.0
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39       will only propose to install ocaml in version 4.01.0
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AUTHOR

42       Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo
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BUGS

45       Not all types of arguments to apt are correctly treated by this
46       wrapper, in particular not the +pkg and -pkg shorthands for
47       installation and removal requests.
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SEE ALSO

50       apt-get(8), apt-cudf(1), apt-cudf.conf(5), update-cudf-solvers(8),
51       README.cudf-solvers
52       <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.cudf-solvers>, README.Debian
53       <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.Debian>
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