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fetchappindex(1)

fetchappindex1

Freshmeat ncurses-based offline browser fetchappindex - fetch freshmeat appindex.txt fetchlsm - fetch linux software map

Part of appindex(1).

Usage

appindex [-c configfile] [-s searchstr]

appindex -h

fetchappindex

fetchlsm

Overview

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.

Author

Appindex was written by Martin Hinner <[email protected]>, http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/

From appindex 0.5-1 in Debian 2.2 (Potato). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.