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About Feta
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Feta is a frontend to the Debian package management system dpkg, the Debian
configuration system Debconf, and the Debian package distribution system,
APT. Feta provides a unified interface to a variety of Debian tools, and
more tools are still being added.
Feta was written because, frankly, Debian's package system is confusing.
There's apt-get, apt-cache, and a number of dpkg options (some which work
on files, some on package names) that are "basic" knowledge of the
packaging system, and a dozen more useful commands most people don't even
know about. Feta seeks to remedy this problem by providing one program that
does all the other tasks (using the existing programs as a backend).
Thanks to Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@csiro.au> for his excellent
'wajig' tool, from which Feta has borrowed many command ideas.
Using Feta
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feta [command] [packages|files|urls] [, [command] [packages|files|urls]]
Where command is almost any dpkg or apt command you're familiar with.
The command "console" drops you into an interactive command console
where you can execute commands.
More extensive help is available by typing
$ man feta
At a command prompt.
Many of Feta's commands require you to be root. Feta will automatically
run `su' if this is necessary.
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