/usr/bin/appindex
The appindex executable
appindex1
Freshmeat ncurses-based offline browser fetchappindex - fetch freshmeat appindex.txt fetchlsm - fetch linux software map
Usage
appindex [-c
configfile]
[-s
searchstr]
appindex -h
fetchappindex
fetchlsm
Overview
Appindex is offline Freshmeat browser. It uses appindex.txt file downloadable from <http://freshmeat.net/backend/>.
Commands
BS,
|
Quit: Exits program or application index |
|---|---|
RETURN
|
Selects current category in category list. |
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Search appindex database |
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Starts your browser with application homepage |
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Starts your browser with application download site |
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Starts your browser with application changelog |
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Starts your browser with Freshmeat application page |
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Starts your browser with rpm package download |
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Starts your browser with Debian package download |
Configuration file
Configuration file (/usr/local/etc/appindex.conf or ~/.appindexrc by default) is read by appindex at startup. You can specify few things here:
- Browser
commandline -
Specifies your favourite browser.
- Download
commandline -
Specifies download command. This is used to get appindex.txt from the net. See
AppindexURLkeyword.
- AppindexURL URL
-
Specifies remote appindex.txt URL. Use this if you want appindex to download appindex.txt from the net everytime you run it. Do not forget to erase local appindex.txt else appindex will preffer it.
- Color
whatforegroundbackground -
You can change color of NORMAL, SELECTED, HEADER, KEY, KEYTEXT, INFOKEY and INFOVAL. Valid colors are BLACK, WHITE, BLUE, CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, GREEN, RED or number
0-7.
Files
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/usr/bin/fetchappindex -
The
fetchappindexexecutable
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/usr/bin/fetchlsm -
The
fetchlsmexecutable
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/etc/appindex.conf -
The systemwide configuration file
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~/.appindexrc -
The personal configuration file
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~/.appindex.txt[.gz|.bz2] -
The personal appindex.txt data file
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/var/lib/appindex/appindex.txt[.gz|.bz2] -
The global appindex.txt data file