ara
Ara is a command-line utility for querying the Debian package database. It has a query syntax allowing you to search for boolean combinations of regular expressions. It includes a simple syntax and line-editing. A graphical interface, xara, is also provided.
| Tags | Systems Administration Software Distribution Tools |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | OCaml |
Recent releases
- 31 Mar 2005 23:34
Changes: Some Debian packaging issues have been fixed. Files have been recompiled for Ocaml 3.08.3.
- 21 Dec 2004 22:22
Changes: Build problems were fixed, a workaround was implemented for GTK2 crashes with Qt themes, minor syntax and speed improvements were made, and typos in the man page were fixed.
- 08 Dec 2004 06:44
Changes: Another bug in set computation lead to incorrect results, and the -noborders option was ignored. These flaws have been corrected.
- 08 Dec 2004 19:55
Changes: This release uses thread-safe PCRE for regular expression matching. Unicode support has begun. There are major speed improvements. There is now an HTTP daemon version, in addition to the CLI and GTK 2 interfaces.
- 04 Dec 2004 08:51
Changes: Bugs in set operations leading to incorrect results have been fixed. The -noborders option is no longer ignored.
