man use (Commandes) - Frontend to the Usepackage Environment Manager
NAME
use - Frontend to the Usepackage Environment Manager
SYNOPSIS
- csh and derivatives:
- source /usr/share/usepackage/use.csh
- bourne shell and derivatives:
- source /usr/share/usepackage/use.bsh
- korn shell:
- . /usr/share/usepackage/use.ksh
use [-vscb] [-f file] package ...
use -l
DESCRIPTION
Usepackage is an environment management program. It is based on the principle of packages - collections of executables that share a common set of necessary environment variables, such as PATH, MANPATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
For each given package, use sources the appropriate environment information into the current shell. The environment information is specified in a configuration file, see usepackage(1).
OPTIONS
- -s
- Silence warnings for un-matched packages. This is useful in a shell rc script when a package is known not to be available on all architectures that the shell is used on.
- -f file
- Specify an alternate initial configuration file.
- -l
- List available packages and groups.
FILES
- The default configuration file.
- Shell setup for csh and derivatives.
- Shell setup for bourne shell and derivatives.
- Shell setup for ksh.
- The underlying Usepackage executable.
ENVIRONMENT
Other than the reading and re-definition of environment variables for package setup, use also uses the following environment variables for user configuration:
- Colon-separated path list giving the directories to search for configuration files. Shell-style tilde (~) user-directory escapes are expanded.
COPYRIGHT
Usepackage Environment Manager Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jonathan Hogg
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA