EMBOSS: embossupdate

| embossupdate

## Wiki

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## Function

Checks for more recent updates to EMBOSS

## Description

embossupdate checks for the latest EMBOSS updates and reports if a more recent version is available.

## Algorithm

The EMBOSS webite maintains a page for the latest release with all fixes available as patches or as new distributions.

embossupdate reads this page and reports a description of any changes and instructions for updating. These are read from the updates page and subject to change.

If no later version is found embossupdate reports success.

## Usage

Here is a sample session with embossupdate

    % embossupdate
    Checks for more recent updates to EMBOSS

    EMBOSS 6.5.6.0 is the latest version (6.5.0.0)

## Command line arguments

    Checks for more recent updates to EMBOSS
    Version: EMBOSS:6.5.6.0

       Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers: (none)
       Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
       -outfile            outfile    [stdout] EMBOSS update output file

       Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
       Associated qualifiers:

       "-outfile" associated qualifiers
       -odirectory         string     Output directory

       General qualifiers:
       -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
       -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
       -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                      first file to standard output
       -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
       -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
       -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
       -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                      information on associated and general
                                      qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
       -warning            boolean    Report warnings
       -error              boolean    Report errors
       -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
       -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
       -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier | Type | Description | Allowed values | Default
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
(none)
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
-outfile | outfile | EMBOSS update output file | Output file | stdout
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
(none)
Associated qualifiers
"-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers
-odirectory | string | Output directory | Any string |
General qualifiers
-auto | boolean | Turn off prompts | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-stdout | boolean | Write first file to standard output | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-filter | boolean | Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-options | boolean | Prompt for standard and additional values | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-debug | boolean | Write debug output to program.dbg | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-verbose | boolean | Report some/full command line options | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-help | boolean | Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose | Boolean value Yes/No | N
-warning | boolean | Report warnings | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-error | boolean | Report errors | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-fatal | boolean | Report fatal errors | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-die | boolean | Report dying program messages | Boolean value Yes/No | Y
-version | boolean | Report version number and exit | Boolean value Yes/No | N

## Input file format

embossupdate reads a page from the EMBOSS website at http://emboss.open-bio.org/updates/EMBOSS.fixes for a Unix version, and http://emboss.open-bio.org/updates/mEMBOSS.fixes for Windows releases.

## Output file format

embossupdate reports any more recent updates, or reports that the current version is up to date.

## Data files

None.

## Notes

None.

## References

None.

## Warnings

None.

## Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

## Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

## Known bugs

None.

## See also

Program name | Description
--- | ---
embossdata | Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files
embossversion | Report the current EMBOSS version number

## Author(s)

Peter Rice
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

## History

## Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

## Comments

None