WHAT IS IT ?

ara is a utility for doing boolean regexp queries on the Debian package
database, which is stored as a formatted plain text file in
/var/lib/dpkg/available.  Debian is a distribution of the Linux operating
system.

DOWNLOAD

ara is mostly useful only to Debian users.

Source code is available from

  http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/ara/

INSTALLATION

Although a generic use as a formatted plain text database query engine can't be
excluded, ara is mostly useful for searching the Debian package database, hence
under a Debian system.

If you are using Debian, you should install ara by installing its .deb package
as any other piece of debianized software.

To compile ara from its sources you need Objective Caml version 3.06 or higher.
Just untar, then type make nc (if native-code compilation is not available,
you'll have to use the bytecode version, which is, of course, slower but still
usable -- type make to obtain bytecode). See http://caml.inria.fr/ for more info
on that great language.

LICENSE

ara is, of course, released under the GNU General Public License, version 2,
a copy of which is included in the source distribution.

THANKS

Thanks to Thomas Schoepf for debianizing this.

AUTHOR

Berke Durak <berke-dev@ouvaton.org>

$Id: INSTALL,v 1.1 2003/03/18 14:57:20 berke Exp $
