apt-libs Subpackage of apt

This package includes the libapt-pkg library. libapt-pkg provides the common functionality for searching and managing packages as well as information about packages. Higher-level package managers can depend upon this library. This includes: * retrieval of information about packages from multiple sources * retrieval of packages and all dependent packages needed to satisfy a request either through an internal solver or by interfacing with an external one * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data * installation and removal of packages in the system * providing different transports to retrieve data over cdrom, ftp, http, rsh as well as an interface to add more transports like debtorrent (apt-transport-debtorrent).

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