Debian-based systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, or their derivatives use
the APT Package Manager, commonly via programs such as apt-get
,
apt-cache
or other frontends written against the APT libraries.
This package offers a simple interface from R, mostly so that the package management system can be queried.
The APT library API is described in the package libapt-pkg-doc
.
See the libapt-pkg-doc
package on a Debian-based system.