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superpaco

SUPERPACO(8)							      System							      SUPERPACO(8)

NAME

       superpaco - Debian, RPM or Slackware package installation support for paco(8).

SYNOPSIS

       superpaco [OPTIONS] <packages>

DESCRIPTION

       superpaco  performs  the  installation  of  Debian,  RPM or Slackware binary packages, without requiring the use of dpkg(8), rpm(8) or pkg-
       tool(8). The installations are logged by paco (but see option -n below),

       To install RPM packages, cpio(1) and ( rpm2cpio(1) or rpmunpack ) are required.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display a brief usage message and exit.

       -v, --version
	      Display version information and exit.

       -q, --quiet
	      Be silent, except for errors.

       -n, --no-paco
	      Do not use paco to log the installation.

       --root=PATH
	      When installing the files, use PATH as the root directory.

       -s, --strip-release
	      Remove the release suffix from the name of the package (e.g. 'foo-1.0.2-2.1' --> 'foo-1.0.2').

WEB SITE

       http://paco.sourceforge.net

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2009 David Rosal <davidrr@sourceforge.net>
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       paco(8), pacorc(5), pacoball(8), rpm2paco(8)

paco-2.0.9							   28 June 2010 						      SUPERPACO(8)