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

feta(1)