import warnings warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning) import apt if __name__ == "__main__": progress = apt.progress.OpTextProgress() cache = apt.Cache(progress) print cache for pkg in cache: if pkg.isUpgradable: pkg.markInstall() for pkg in cache.getChanges(): #print pkg.Name() pass print "Broken: %s " % cache._depcache.BrokenCount print "InstCount: %s " % cache._depcache.InstCount # get a new cache cache = apt.Cache(progress) for name in cache.keys(): import random if random.randint(0, 1) == 1: cache[name].markDelete() print "Broken: %s " % cache._depcache.BrokenCount print "DelCount: %s " % cache._depcache.DelCount