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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,372

What is demo?

I came across this as a dependancy of something or other, so I tried it in a terminal.

There is no help and no manual, but it requires a port as an argument. I used 16384 as a test and it appears to start a http server on that port, but to what end?

What's it for, where did it come from, and why do I need it?

Obviously, a google search is practically impossible, even trying to limit the search with http, linux, commandline etc.

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pezz

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From: Geelong, Australia

Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 104

Re: What is demo?

Required by kodi for me...

[pezz@kaylee]-[20:26:49]-[~]
% which demo
/usr/bin/demo

[pezz@kaylee]-[20:27:12]-[~]
% pacman -Qo /usr/bin/demo
/usr/bin/demo is owned by libmicrohttpd 0.9.39-1

[pezz@kaylee]-[20:27:19]-[~]
% pacman -Qi libmicrohttpd
Name           : libmicrohttpd
Version        : 0.9.39-1
Description    : a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application.
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/
Licenses       : LGPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gnutls  libgcrypt
Optional Deps  : file [installed]
                 curl [installed]
Required By    : kodi
Optional For   : systemd
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 465.00 KiB
Packager       : Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Wed 25 Mar 2015 23:47:42 AEDT
Install Date   : Thu 26 Mar 2015 16:08:31 AEDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

Last edited by pezz (2015-04-14 10:29:18)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: What is demo?

which demo
pacman -Qo demo
pklgfile demo

EDIT: Hehe, old tab was old.

Last edited by Awebb (2015-04-14 10:35:22)