software-center (1)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/software-center.1".)

NAME

software-center - manage software

SYNOPSIS

software-center [options] [ package-name | apt-url | deb-file ]

DESCRIPTION

software-center a graphical interface for package management in Ubuntu.

OPTIONS

Listed below are the command line options for software-center:

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--debug

enable debug mode

EXAMPLES

software-center

Display the main screen of software-center.

software-center gedit

Display the details view of the gedit package.

software-center banshee?section=universe

Display the details view of the banshee package and offer to enable the universe component.

software-center adobe-flashplugin?channel=maverick-partner

Display the details view of the adobe-flashplugin package and offer to enable the maverick-partner channel.

software-center cheese,gtg

Display a list containing the cheese and gtg packages.

software-center /home/pgg/skype.deb

Display the details view of the local debian file '/home/pgg/skype.deb'.

AUTHOR

software-center was written by Michael Vogt <mvo@canonical.com>, and this manual page by Andrew Higginson <rugby471@gmail.com>.
Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.