pacman - Package Management Utility by Judd Vinet DESCRIPTION: ------------ pacman is a utility which manages software packages in Linux. It uses simple .tar.gz files as a package format, and maintains a text-based package database, just in case some hand tweaking is necessary. pacman does not strive to "do everything." It will add, remove and upgrade packages in the system, and it will allow you to query the package database for installed packages, files and owners. Plans exist for dependency checking and remote file fetching, as well. See TODO for more info. INSTALL: -------- $ make install or $ make DESTDIR=/your/path/here install If your man files are located in a directory other than /usr/man, you may want to edit Makefile and modify the MANDIR line accordingly. Note: Since pacman is compiled statically, you will need the static libraries for glibc and zlib. BUGS: ----- If you find bugs (which is quite likely at version 1.0), please submit them to with specific information, such as your commandline, the nature of the bug, and even the package database, if it helps. COPYRIGHT: ---------- pacman is Copyright (c) 2002 Judd vinet and is licensed through the GNU General Public License (see COPYING). pacman uses "libtar", a library for reading/writing tar-files. This library is Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Mark D. Roth (see libtar-X.X.X/COPYRIGHT for further details).