What is apt and what are its uses? [closed]

Question

In a terminal, if you type apt- and press tab, you will end up with these suggestions:

I'd like to see practical examples of how you would use each these commands.

Note: I already know how to use a few of these, but would like examples of them all for completeness.

Answer 1

It is very easy: you type man apt-cdrom, for instance, and you get more information and an explanation. You can also navigate the documentation here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/. man stands for manual. The command works for a lot of other terminal commands as well.

You usually get a good description and a synopsis. Sometimes you also get practical examples, but that depends on the man page.

1. For apt-add-repository it states

     add-apt-repository is a script which adds an external APT repository to
     either  /etc/apt/sources.list  or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ or
     removes an already existing repository.
   

2. For apt-get

    apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be
    considered the user's "back-end" to other tools using the APT library.
    Several "front-end" interfaces exist, such as dselect(1), aptitude(8),
    synaptic(8) and wajig(1).
   

3. For apt-key

     apt-key is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to authenticate
     packages. Packages which have been authenticated using these keys will
     be considered trusted.
   

For the rest it is up to you to learn about these commands in the man pages. The synopsis can hardly get any more practical.