Yes. It uses apt but do you realise that you didn't install it using APT? You used plain dpkg but it now registers itself with APT (I think using something simi

Yes. It uses apt but do you realise that you didn't install it using APT? You used plain dpkg but it now registers itself with APT (I think using something similar to a PPA) so that you can autoupdate. EDIT: Sorry if this sounded accusative. Wasn't meant that way. Would be fun trying to autoupdate deb packages though.