aptrepo is a work-in-progress attempt at a pure Python library for fetching
data from arbitrary APT repositories (without having to add them to your
sources.list first). Currently, its main attractions are the programs in
its command-line interface:
aptrepo-components <uri> <suite> aptrepo-components [-d|--distro DISTRO] <ppa>
List the components (a.k.a. "sections" or "areas") available in the given suite
aptrepo-packages [-a|--arch ARCH] [-T|--table] <uri> <suite> <component> aptrepo-packages [-T|--table] <uri> <suite/> aptrepo-packages [-a|--arch ARCH] [-d|--distro DISTRO] [-T|--table] <ppa>
List the packages provided by the given repository for the given architecture
as a stream of JSON objects. If the --table option is supplied, the output
will be in the form of a text table instead.
aptrepo-release <uri> <suite> aptrepo-release <uri> <suite/> aptrepo-release [-d|--distro DISTRO] <ppa>
Output the contents of the suite's Release or InRelease file as a JSON
object
aptrepo-sources <uri> <suite> <component> aptrepo-sources <uri> <suite/> aptrepo-sources [-d|--distro DISTRO] <ppa>
List the source packages provided by the given repository as a stream of JSON objects
aptrepo-suites [-F|--flat] {<uri> | <ppa>} [<subdir>]
Try to determine the suites available in the given archive by scraping the
index page of the archive's /dists directory (or a given subdirectory
beneath it). If the --flat option is given, aptrepo-suites will
instead scrape the archive's main URI (or a given subdirectory beneath it).
aptrepo-translation list <uri> <suite> <component> aptrepo-translation list <uri> <suite/> aptrepo-translation list [-d|--distro DISTRO] <ppa>
List the language codes of the available package description translations in the given repository
aptrepo-translation get <lang> <uri> <suite> <component> aptrepo-translation get <lang> <uri> <suite/> aptrepo-translation [-d|--distro DISTRO] <lang> <ppa>
Fetch the package description translations for the given language code from the given repository
All commands also take a -v or --verbose option that can be given one
or more times to enable INFO or DEBUG logging.
aptrepo requires Python 3.6 or higher. Just use version 6.0 or higher of
pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install
aptrepo and its dependencies:
python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/jwodder/aptrepo.git
Installing inside a virtual environment is recommended,
especially on pre-16.04 versions of Ubuntu where the python-debian Python
package installed by the system's python3-debian Debian package is too old
for aptrepo's needs.