poldek provides two commands: poldek with rpm-like command line interface and ipoldek with interactive mode command interface. Invoking syntax is:

$ poldek [OPTION...] [PACKAGE...]
$ ipoldek [OPTION...] [COMMAND] [COMMAND_OPTION...] [PACKAGE...]

For example to install or upgrade Apache HTTP server:

$ poldek -uv apache 
$ ipoldek install apache

poldek provides comfortable shell-like mode which puts you into a readline interface. To enter it, execute poldek or ipoldek without any command:

$ poldek
Loading [pndir]titanium...
Loading [pndir]titanium-ready...
10998 packages read
Loading [rpmdbcache]/var/lib/rpm...
1498 packages read

Welcome to the poldek shell mode. Type "help" for help with commands.

poldek:/all-avail>

Once you are on poldek's command line, type 'help' and the rest should be, more or less, self-explanatory.

poldek:/all-avail> help
poldek 0.30 (snap20080820.23)
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Pawel A. Gajda <mis@pld-linux.org>
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2
ls        [OPTION...] [PACKAGE...]             List packages
search    [OPTION...] PATTERN [PACKAGE...]     Search packages
get       [OPTION...] PACKAGE...               Download packages
desc      [OPTION...] PACKAGE...               Display packages info
install   [OPTION...] PACKAGE...               Install packages
uninstall [OPTION...] PACKAGE...               Uninstall packages
cd        [PATH]                               Change current package directory
pwd                                            Print name of current directory
help                                           Display this help
alias                                          Print defined command aliases
reload                                         Reload installed packages
quit                                           Exit poldek

Type COMMAND -? for details.

Source configuration may be placed in your local $HOME/.poldekrc or global /etc/poldek/source.conf or /etc/poldek/repos.d/file.conf). Whatever you choose, put there something like:

# PLD Titanium
# Unofficial version of PLD Linux Distribution
# http://www.pld-linux.org/Titanium

_arch   = x86_64
_prefix = ftp://ftp.titanium.pld-linux.org/branches/titanium
#_prefix = ftp://ftp2.pld-linux.org/branches/titanium
_type = pndir

[source]
type   = %{_type}
name   = titanium
path   = %{_prefix}/PLD/%{_arch}/RPMS/

[source]
name = home
path = $HOME/rpm/RPMS

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