NAME
pkglab - explore package repositories
SYNOPSIS
pkglab [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Pkglab is an interactive, console-based environment to explore package repositories of package-based software distributions.
A pkglab session typically starts by loading a package repository in one of the different formats understood pkglab. Then, pkglab can check given package combinations for co-installability according to inter-package relationships.
OPTIONS
- -architecture architecture
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Default architecture to use when accessing packages from a package repository. By default the current host architecture is used.
- -history filename
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Use the file filename to load and save command-line history. Defaults to $HOME/.pkglab-history.
- -script filename
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Execute commands from the file filename.
- -merge waterway
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Start by merging the archive found in waterway.
- -help, --help
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Display basic help information.
SEE ALSO
Pkglab can read package repositories in the dose format produced by ceve(1).
The non-interactive tools edos-debcheck(1) and rpm-debcheck(1) use the same algorithm as pkglab for checking installability of packages.
AUTHORS
Pkglab was written by Berke Durak and Jaap Boender for the EDOS and Mancoosi projects.