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smart: The Smart Package Manager

Command to display smart manual in Linux: $ man 8 smart

NAME

smart - The Smart Package Manager

SYNOPSIS

smart command [options] [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).

Action commands

update
install
reinstall
upgrade
remove
check
fix
download
clean

Setup commands

channel
priority
mirror
flag

Query commands

search
query
info
stats

Run "smart command --help" for more information.

Options

--version: Show program's version number and exit
--config-file=FILE: Configuration file (default is <data-dir>/config)
--data-dir=DIR: Specifies the config file location - can take http, ftp urls and local file Data directory (default is /var/lib/smart/)
--log-level=LEVEL: Set the log level to level (debug, info, warning, error)
--gui: Use the default graphic interface
--shell: Use the default shell interface
--interface=NAME: Use the given interface
--ignore-locks: Don't respect locking
-o OPT, --option=OPT: Set the option given by a name=value pair

Examples

smart install --help
smart install pkgname
smart --gui
smart --gui install pkgname
smart --shell

FILES

/etc/smart/
/var/lib/smart/
/usr/lib/smart/
/usr/lib/smart/plugins/

AUTHOR

Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo [at] niemeyer.net>