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m123

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Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 29

Discrepancy between Pacman FTP and Arch website ? [solved]

Hi,

I just wanted to report out what I think is a discepancy between the pacman FTP base and the Archlinux website.

I installed kde yesterday pacman -S kde and replied yes to the question asking me if I wanted to install all kde group components.

I ended up with gwenview which belongs to the multimedia category on Archlinux website, while kiosktool and kshutdown, which are in the kde category on the website were not installed.

Unless I am confusing the group and category concepts, it appears to be a discrepancy. Wouldn't it be clearer if those concepts matched and bore the same name ?

Let me know. Thanks.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Discrepancy between Pacman FTP and Arch website ? [solved]

As you thought, you are confusing group and category.  A group is a bunch of similar apps that can be installed at once.
For example, you can list all groups available by doing:

pacman -Sg

However, categories aren't the same.  If you try pacman -S multimedia for example, it won't work.

m123

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Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 29

Re: Discrepancy between Pacman FTP and Arch website ? [solved]

Thanks. It is now clear. By the way, the web tool is great !