Basic commands 🔤

denget about

To verify that denget is installed, just run denget, which is the same as running denget about. This will give you denget version, general information, ways to get details and denget license.

denget -v

Shows current version. denget -version works too.

denget help

denget has a built-in documentation with a list of commands and their descriptions. Running this command will invoke a general help page. To get help for a specific command, run denget help <command> or denget <command> -h.

Please refer to this whenever you’re not sure what to do. Web documentation doesn’t cover all commands arguments, flags and some specific nuances.

denget features

Shows status of different optional features that expand denget functionality. For more information on these features, visit Features.

Most commands can make use of flags, most universal of which are -f or -force to bypass some restrictions or warnings, and -q or -quiet to omit some non-breaking questions and most messages that are not warnings or errors. See help for a specific command to check which flags are applicable.

Dive in 🤿

Let’s now see available programs, install one, verify the installation and launch it.

denget available

Lists programs that can be installed. More specifically, it lists manifests from available buckets. To learn what these words mean, refer to Manifests and Buckets & Sources.