Linux Mint apt¶

Linux Mint’s apt, a wrapper script that shadows Debian’s apt.

Mint ships its own apt command reusing the name but not the behavior of APT, so only version probing and search parsing are overridden here; every other operation is inherited.

Note

Mint’s apt --version prints no apt <version> line, so the version is read from apt version apt: the version of the apt package itself.

Caution

Search rows are <status> <name> - <description> with no version column and no --full mode, so extended matching is unsupported and results carry no version.

Home page: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/issues/52
Source: meta_package_manager/managers/apt.py
Version requirement: >=1.0.0

Platforms¶

🅱️ BSD
🐧 Linux
⨂ Unix

Operations¶

Operation	Supported	Notes
`installed`	✓
`outdated`	✓
`search`	✓	extended search backfilled by `mpm`
`install`	✓
`upgrade`	✓
`upgrade_all`	✓
`remove`	✓
`sync`	✓
`cleanup`	✓

Ecosystem¶

Accepted purl types: pkg:apt-mint, pkg:deb

Usage¶

$ mpm --apt-mint installed
$ mpm --apt-mint search "query"
$ mpm --apt-mint upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:apt-mint/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --apt-mint upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-apt-mint, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line¶

CLI names, in lookup order: apt
Arguments forced before each call: --quiet

The version is extracted from the output of apt version apt with:

r"apt\s+(?P<version>\S+)"

Privilege escalation¶

System-wide manager: mpm wraps its privileged operations in sudo out of the box. Instead of letting the tool prompt mid-run, mpm primes the credential cache up-front, with a single branded password prompt at most. Turn escalation off for rootless setups with --no-sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown¶

State of Linux Mint apt’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: ➖ N/A (follows apt)

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.