WHAT IS IT ?

ara (command-line) and xara (GTK2) are utilities for doing boolean regexp
queries on the Debian package database.  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.

ara is the command-line version and xara is the LablGTK2 version.

To compile ara from its sources you need Objective Caml version 3.08.1 or higher.
Just untar, then type make ara (or make ara.bt if native-code compilation is not
available).  See http://caml.inria.fr/ for more info on that great language.
Copy the resulting ara.opt or ara in /usr/local/bin.

To compile xara you need LablGTK2 installed.  Type make xara or make xara.bt
for bytecode.  Copy the resulting xara/xara or xara/xara.bt in /usr/local/bin.

LICENSE

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

THANKS

Many thanks to Thomas Schoepf, Sven Luther and George Danchev for their
help with Debian packaging.

AUTHOR

Berke Durak <berke-dev@ouvaton.org>

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