feta(1)
NAME
feta - a frontend to many Debian package-related tools
SYNOPSIS
feta [options] [command] [packages|files|urls] ...
DESCRIPTION
Arrayfunctions. It deals with about a dozen different helper programs
in the Debian packaging system for you.
USAGE
Arraytry feta help command, which may bring up more information about
the command.
OPTIONS
-h Read this manual page.
- Arraygeneric error message with one that may be more informative, from
the program that the error occurred in.
Some other command line options are expanded and turned - into actions; see below for that list.
COMMANDS
Arrayare guaranteed to continue to work, and the undocumented ones may
change in later versions of Feta.
MULTIPLE COMMANDS
Arraymands. For example,
$ feta install package1, remove package2
$ feta build-dep package, build package
ADVANCED SEARCHING
- Arrayample, if you want a list of all the maintainers of packages that
depend on fileutils:
$ feta search Depends: fileutils Maintainer:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Benjamin Hill (Mako) <mako@debian.org>
Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org> - ...
THE FETA CONSOLE
Arraythe first error, or when you type the commands `quit' or `exit'.
> install fileutils
(Process of installing fileutils)
> dist-upgrade
(Process of dist-upgrading)
> purge tetex-base
(Process of purging tetex-base)
> exit
#
Arraymethod.
# feta -x console < things_to_do.txt
OTHER OPTIONS
Arrayapt-get --simulate option and the dpkg --no-act option.
AUTHOR
- ArrayBTS -- 'feta bug feta').
The AUTHORS file, included with Feta, includes a complete - list of everyone who has donated code or time to Feta. Thanks!
LICENSE
Arrayunder different licenses. Please see the copyright and/or copyright.gz files in /usr/share/doc/packagename for more information. Feta's plugins may also be covered under a different license, although most are under the GNU GPL as well.
FILES
- /usr/local/{lib,share}/feta, /usr/{lib,share}/feta
- Places to put plugins.
- /etc/apt/feta.prep
- Created after Feta is run once, as part of the
- preparation installation.
ENVIRONMENT
Arrayother program to run.
SEE ALSO
Arraydpkg-reconfigure(8), dpkg-repack(8), dpkg-statoverride(8),
grep-dctrl(1), reportbug(1), su(1), sudo(8), wget(1).
Debian February 16th, 2004