Review: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring


 
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Old 05-29-2008
Review: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring

Thu, 29 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Last month Mandriva announced its latest Spring edition. Despite a few minor glitches, after several weeks of testing the two Mandriva flavors, I have finally come across a distro that gives you the best of the GNU/Linux and proprietary worlds in terms of ease of use, range of software, and stability on hardware that ranges from old Celerons to newer multi-core machines.


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RAPID(6)							       Games								  RAPID(6)

NAME
rapid - content download tool for spring SYNOPSIS
rapid [options] <action> [<argument>] rapid-spring [options] <action> [<argument>] DESCRIPTION
Rapid manages downloads of content for the spring RTS engine. OPTIONS
action in the command line is one of: upgrade: Install the latest package for all pinned tags. clean-upgrade: Equivalent to 'upgrade' followed by 'uninstall-unpinned'. pin: Pins a tag and installs the latest package for that tag. unpin: Unpins a tag. Does not uninstall any packages. install: Install a package. Does not pin any tags. uninstall: Uninstall a package. Unpin its tag if any. list-tags: List all tags that contain <argument>. list-pinned-tags: Idem, but only pinned tags. list-packages: List all packages whose name contains <argument>. list-installed-packages: Idem, but only installed packages. uninstall-unpinned: Keep only the pinned tags and all dependencies. collect-pool: Remove pool files not needed by any installed package. make-sdd: Extract pool files into a .sdd archive. these are the possible options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --datadir=DATADIR Override the default data directory. (~/.spring on Linux or the one reported by unitsync on Windows) --unitsync Use unitsync to locate the data directory Spring uses. --no-unitsync Do not use unitsync. EXAMPLES
rapid pin xta:latest # installs latest XTA rapid pin s44:latest # installs latest Spring: 1944 rapid upgrade # upgrade all pinned tags SEE ALSO
rapid-gui(6), spring(6) AUTHOR
Tobi Vollebregt <tobivollebregt@gmail.com> This manual page was written by Jan Dittberner <jandd@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). rapid August 2010 RAPID(6)