Preface

This book provides a tutorial and reference for the ESP Package Manager ("EPM") software, version 5.0, and is organized into the following chapters and appendices:

Notation Conventions

The names of commands; the first mention of a command or function in a chapter is followed by a manual page section number:
 
epm
epm(1)
 
File and directory names:
 
/var
/usr/bin/epm
 
Screen output:
 
Request ID is Printer-123
 
Literal user input; special keys like ENTER are in ALL CAPS:
 
lp -d printer filename ENTER
 
Long commands are broken up on multiple lines using the backslash (\) character; enter the commands without the backslash:
 
foo start of long command \
    end of long command ENTER

 
Numbers in the text are written using the period (.) to indicate the decimal point:
 
12.3
 

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used throughout this book:

kb
Kilobytes, or 1024 bytes
 
Mb
Megabytes, or 1048576 bytes
 
Gb
Gigabytes, or 1073741824 bytes
 

Other References

https://jimjag.github.io/epm/
The official home page of the ESP Package Manager software.
 
http://www.debian.org/devel/
Debian Developers' Corner
 
http://techpubs.sgi.com/
IRIX Documentation On-Line
 
http://www.rpm.org/
The Red Hat Package Manager home page.
 
http://docs.sun.com/
Solaris Documentation On-Line
 

Help Me Improve This Book!

We've done my best to ensure that this book is both accurate and clear. If you find errors or have a suggestion for improving the book, please file a bug at:

https://github.com/jimjag/epm/issues

Acknowledgments

We'd like to thank the following people for their contributions to EPM: