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JeanLucJ

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Registered: 2019-03-08

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[Solved] Package not listed in http://www.archlinux.org/packages/

Hello,

Looking for a tool to merge pdf, I found an article stating pdfjam is available with Arch.
I looked in http://www.archlinux.org/packages/, the package is not found. I played with filters without results.
I just installed pdfjam with pacman... and it worked. The package exists.

=> There may be something wrong here

Last edited by JeanLucJ (2019-06-19 13:59:53)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Package not listed in http://www.archlinux.org/packages/

pacman -Qi pdfjam
pacman -Fs pdfjam

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WorMzy

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Re: [Solved] Package not listed in http://www.archlinux.org/packages/

I just installed pdfjam with pacman...

Unless you've added a unofficial repository, you didn't install a package ~called~ "pdfjam", you installed a package that ~provides~ "pdfjam"; texlive-core, in fact.

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JeanLucJ

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Re: [Solved] Package not listed in http://www.archlinux.org/packages/

I just installed pdfjam with pacman...

Unless you've added a unofficial repository, you didn't install a package ~called~ "pdfjam", you installed a package that ~provides~ "pdfjam"; texlive-core, in fact.

Well, I'm impressed. My command was :

sudo pacman -S pdfjam

And indeed, the log states it installed textlive-core.
So pacman is able to find the package to install when provided with an executable inside the package.

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Package not listed in http://www.archlinux.org/packages/

So pacman is able to find the package to install when provided with an executable inside the package.

No.

Pacman will find a package that provides the requested package name.

pdfjam was once it's own package.  Now that package is in the provides list of texlive-core.

$ pacman -Qi texlive-core
Name            : texlive-core
Version         : 2018.50036-1
Description     : TeX Live core distribution
Architecture    : any
URL             : http://tug.org/texlive/
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : texlive-most
Provides        : tetex  texlive-latex3  pdfjam  texlive-genericextra  texlive-plainextra
...

See the last line there.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-06-19 14:02:15)

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