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+The APT installation method encompasses most other installation methods
+under the umbrella of the new Package Acquisition code. This method allows
+installation from locations in the filesystem, ftp and http URLs, supports
+full installation ordering and integrity checking as well as multiple
+sources. See the man pages apt-get(8) and source.list(5)