---
name: "rapid-spring"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "rapid-spring"
version: "0.6.0-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rapid"
---

# rapid-spring(6)

content download tool for spring

Part of [rapid(6)](/rapid/6.md).

## NAME

rapid - content download tool for spring

## SYNOPSIS

**rapid** \[*options*\] *\<action\>* \[*\<argument\>*\]

**rapid-spring** \[*options*\] *\<action\>* \[*\<argument\>*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Rapid manages downloads of content for the spring RTS engine.

## OPTIONS

action in the command line is one of:

-

  **upgrade:** Install the latest package for all pinned tags.

-

  **clean-upgrade:** Equivalent to 'upgrade' followed by 'uninstall-unpinned'.

-

  **pin:** Pins a tag and installs the latest package for that tag.

-

  **unpin:** Unpins a tag. Does not uninstall any packages.

-

  **install:** Install a package. Does not pin any tags.

-

  **uninstall:** Uninstall a package. Unpin its tag if any.

-

  **list-tags:** List all tags that contain \<argument\>.

-

  **list-pinned-tags:** Idem, but only pinned tags.

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  **list-packages:** List all packages whose name contains \<argument\>.

-

  **list-installed-packages:** Idem, but only installed packages.

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  **uninstall-unpinned:** Keep only the pinned tags and all dependencies.

-

  **collect-pool:** Remove pool files not needed by any installed package.

-

  **make-sdd:** Extract pool files into a .sdd archive.

- these are the possible options:

  -

  **-h**, **--help** show this help message and exit

-

  **--datadir**=*DATADIR* Override the default data directory. (~/.spring on Linux or the one reported by unitsync on Windows)

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  **--unitsync** Use unitsync to locate the data directory Spring uses.

-

  **--no-unitsync** Do not use unitsync.

## EXAMPLES

rapid pin xta:latest   # installs latest XTA

rapid pin s44:latest   # installs latest Spring: 1944

rapid upgrade          # upgrade all pinned tags

## SEE ALSO

[**rapid-gui**(6)](/rapid-gui/6.md), [**spring**(6)](/spring/6.md)

## AUTHOR

Tobi Vollebregt \<tobivollebregt@gmail.com\>

This manual page was written by Jan Dittberner \<jandd@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).