Python-apt is a wrapper to use features of apt from python. It contains the following modules: C++ Wrapper: ------------ apt_pkg - access to libapt-pkg (wrapper to the lowlevel c++ code) apt_inst - access to libapt-inst (wrapper to the lowlevel c++ code) Python module: -------------- WARNING: the API of this module is not stable yet apt - high level python interface build on top of apt_pkg, apt_inst