{"id":212324,"date":"2026-02-11T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:50:08","slug":"the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The APT command has hidden powers, here are 5 of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/\">The APT command has hidden powers, here are 5 of them<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 11:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at all familiar with the terminal on Debian or Ubuntu, or one of their offshoots, then you likely know how to use APT to install and update packages. There&#8217;s a lot more to the command line utility though.<\/p>\n<p>APT, also known as apt-get, is a package manager designed to handle DEB packages, downloading them from software repositories and installing them with very little work needed from you. Software often require &#8220;dependencies,&#8221; other independent pieces of software that the software you&#8217;re installing can&#8217;t operate without. APT figures that out and installs them for you, saving you a lot of work. But it&#8217;s capable of a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t37 Important Linux Commands You Should Know<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">37 is a nice round number, after all. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"clean-up-storage-space\">\n                        Clean up storage space<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>If your Linux PC is running low on storage, the APT command actually has the ability to clear up space being taken up by unused software and other waste. In fact, there are several similar but unique commands for this in APT&#8217;s arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>First, there&#8217;s the autoremove tool, which performs the job&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The APT command has hidden powers, here are 5 of them https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/11\/a-kubuntu-focus-laptop-screen-with-the-yakuake-terminal-emulator-for-linux-visible-and-an-apt-package-manager-ugprade-in-progress.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,71,79],"class_list":["post-212324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212326,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324\/revisions\/212326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}