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Toast - *nix package manager

'toast' is a simple package manager for *nix. It automatically locates and downloads source code, determines how to compile it, installs each package in its own directory tree, and makes the resulting binaries available through an encap/GNU stow-like symlink tree. It also supports binary packages. It is often used to install and manage software in a non-root user's home directory.

Since each package's installed files are stored separately, it's easy to quickly install, uninstall, upgrade, recompile, or temporarily disable different software packages or different versions of the same packages, even if they conflict with each other.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.toastball.net/toast/
Source tarballhttp://www.toastball.net/toast/toast-1.335.tar.gz
Version 1.335 (beta) released on 2004-07-19
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.toastball.net/toast/man
Support contacts

Help List<toast-bugs@toastball.net>
Developer List<toast-bugs@toastball.net>
Bug List<toast-bugs@toastball.net>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesShell script
Weak prerequisiteswget
Related programsstow, Graft

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-02-05
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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