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USE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
ENVIRONMENT
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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 [-vs] [-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

	-v		Output verbose information to the standard error stream.
	-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

/usr/share/usepackage/usepackage.conf

The default configuration file.

/usr/share/usepackage/use.csh

Shell setup for csh and derivatives.

/usr/share/usepackage/use.bsh

Shell setup for bourne shell and derivatives.

/usr/share/usepackage/use.ksh

Shell setup for ksh.

/usr/bin/usepackage

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:

	PACKAGES_PATH		Colon-separated path list giving the directories to search for configuration files. Shell-style tilde (˜) user-directory escapes are expanded.
	HOME		If present in the environment, this is used to provide the expansion for the tilde (˜) user-directory.
	SHELL		If present in the environment, the last path component of this is used for shell matching (see SYNTAX ) and detecting the style of environment output that should be used, see usepackage(1) .

COPYRIGHT

Usepackage Environment Manager
Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Jonathan Hogg <me@jonathanhogg.com>

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