apt-venv(1)

apt-venv1

Apt virtual environment

Usage

apt-venv [-D DEBUG] [-d | -c COMMAND] release
apt-venv -l

Overview

apt-venv creates a sort of virtual environments in $HOME/.local/share/apt-venv, one for each release, where apt thinks to be on another distro/release. In these sessions a $APT_VENV variable is set and points out the release name in use.

Options

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-D DEBUG, --debug DEBUG

set debug level

-v, --version

show program's version number and exit

-c COMMAND, --command COMMAND

exec the given command instead of entry the interactive shell

-d, --delete

delete venv for release

-l, --list

list all venv installed in your system

-u, --update

update the apt indexes

Configuration files

The apt-venv configuration files can be found in $HOME/.config/apt-venv.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–13

From apt-venv 1.0.0-6 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.