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#26 2010-11-06 20:41:22

schuay
Package Maintainer (PM)
From: Austria
Registered: 2008-08-19
Posts: 564

Re: Pacman -- GUI Database Viewer [SOLVED]

kachelaqa wrote:

i had a look at that, but it seems to suffer from the same limitation that all the other existing gui apps have: it only works with pacman.

what is needed is a gui front-end for the package-query tool used by yaourt.

package-query also depends on pacman wink

I've had a tiny ncurses alpm frontend/package browser lying around my harddisk for a few weeks now and I finally got around to making a package and working some more on it today.
It's at a very early stage but package browsing and filtering works. Get it from the AUR if you want to try it out:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42685

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#27 2010-11-13 00:05:20

kachelaqa
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Registered: 2010-09-26
Posts: 216

Re: Pacman -- GUI Database Viewer [SOLVED]

schuay wrote:
kachelaqa wrote:

i had a look at that, but it seems to suffer from the same limitation that all the other existing gui apps have: it only works with pacman.

what is needed is a gui front-end for the package-query tool used by yaourt.

package-query also depends on pacman wink

to be more precise: it depends on libalpm wink

my point was that package-query has support for the aur, whereas all the gui apps i've seen don't.

I've had a tiny ncurses alpm frontend/package browser lying around my harddisk for a few weeks now and I finally got around to making a package and working some more on it today.
It's at a very early stage but package browsing and filtering works.

i'm in the middle of writing a pyqt gui wrapper for some libalpm python bindings i generated with swig. at some point, i will also add aur support (should be pretty easy to do using the json module in the python standard library).

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#28 2011-04-27 00:45:18

jeff story
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Registered: 2009-05-31
Posts: 237
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Re: Pacman -- GUI Database Viewer [SOLVED]

I want to announce that as far as I'm concerned, this "issue" has been solved.

Thanks to the contribution of kachelaqa for a very nice app, to search, browse, and list details of Arch packages with AUR support.
I installed pkgbrowser and took it for a test run... Very nice addition / helper to pacman.

Check it out here for more details. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117297

wiki:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ge_Browser
AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48372
Screenshot and source code: http://code.google.com/p/pkgbrowser/


Check out my website for info on the Arch Linux Installer

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