03 Dec 16 09:34, you wrote to me:

 HG> Excuse a dumb question. Does that mean that I install that 'ddrescue'
 HG> somewhere in my machine, and/or that it is imported from the net?

APT is a system for installing software on Debian based systems ie: Zorin,
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, KUbuntua, and others.

see:

http://www.tutonics.com/2012/10/a-faq-style-introduction-to-apt-get-and.html


https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html

8.1.2 APT

APT is the Advanced Package Tool, an advanced interface to the Debian packaging
system which provides the apt-get program. It provides commandline tools for
searching and managing packages, and for querying information about them, as
well as low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library. For more
information, see the User's Guide in
/usr/share/doc/apt-doc/guide.html/index.html (you will have to install the
apt-doc package).

Starting with Debian Jessie, some frequently used apt-get and apt-cache
commands have an equivalent via the new apt binary. This means some popular
commands like apt-get update, apt-get install, apt-get remove, apt-cache
search, or apt-cache show now can also be called simply via apt, say apt
update, apt install, apt remove, apt search, or apt show. The following is an
overview of the old and new commands:

      apt-get update             ->  apt update
      apt-get upgrade            ->  apt upgrade
      apt-get dist-upgrade       ->  apt full-upgrade
      apt-get install package    ->  apt install package
      apt-get remove package     ->  apt remove package
      apt-get autoremove         ->  apt autoremove
      apt-cache search string    ->  apt search string
      apt-cache policy package   ->  apt list -a package
      apt-cache show package     ->  apt show package
      apt-cache showpkg package  ->  apt show -a package


APT can get prorgrams from the repo be it locally, CD/DVD, or via repos via the
internet, all depends on how you set it up.

I keep DVD's of KUbuntu 12.04, 14.04 with the FULL repo on hand so that I can
install stuff.

Some VPS providers create their own local copies of the all or some of the
repos to reduce VPS's pulling this stuff down constantly and wasting the
bandwidth...

Mostly commonly yes, it pulls it from the internet based repos of the distro of
choice.


Rick


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