NAME
appindex - Freshmeat ncurses-based offline browser
fetchappindex - fetch Freshmeat appindex.txt
fetchlsm - fetch Linux Software Map
SYNOPSIS
appindex [-c configfile] [-s searchstr]
appindex -h
fetchappindex
fetchlsm
DESCRIPTION
Appindex is offline Freshmeat browser. It uses appindex.txt file downloadable from <http://freshmeat.net/backend/>.
COMMANDS
- BS,q or Q
-
Quit: Exits program or application index
- RETURN
-
Selects current category in category list.
- /
-
Search appindex database
- w or W
-
Starts your browser with application homepage
- d or D
-
Starts your browser with application download site
- c or C
-
Starts your browser with application changelog
- f or F
-
Starts your browser with Freshmeat application page
- r or R
-
Starts your browser with rpm package download
- b or B
-
Starts your browser with Debian package download
CONFIGURATION FILE
Configuration file (/usr/local/etc/appindex.conf or ~/.appindexrc by default) is read by appindex at startup. You can specify few things here:
- Browser commandline
-
Specifies your favourite browser.
- Download commandline
-
Specifies download command. This is used to get appindex.txt from the net. See AppindexURL keyword.
- AppindexURL URL
-
Specifies remote appindex.txt URL. Use this if you want appindex to download appindex.txt from the net everytime you run it. Do not forget to erase local appindex.txt else appindex will preffer it.
- Color what foreground background
-
You can change color of NORMAL, SELECTED, HEADER, KEY, KEYTEXT, INFOKEY and INFOVAL. Valid colors are BLACK, WHITE, BLUE, CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, GREEN, RED or number 0-7.
FILES
- /usr/bin/appindex
-
The appindex executable
- /usr/bin/fetchappindex
-
The fetchappindex executable
- /usr/bin/fetchlsm
-
The fetchlsm executable
- /etc/appindex.conf
-
The systemwide configuration file
- ~/.appindexrc
-
The personal configuration file
- ~/.appindex.txt[.gz|.bz2]
-
The personal appindex.txt data file
- /var/lib/appindex/appindex.txt[.gz|.bz2]
-
The global appindex.txt data file
BUGS
See TODO file for more information.
SEE ALSO
http://freshmeat.net, http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/appindex/, http://freshmeat.net/faq.html
AUTHOR
Appindex was written by Martin Hinner <[email protected]>, http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/