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hello,
first i want to thank all archlinux people for this great distribution. i am using linux since about 1992 and i was pretty pissed the last years, as it seemed that linux has taken two ways: the 'we know you are a stupid window user so we try to emulate windows as close as possible' distributions like ubuntu, and the 'we are so cewl that you should take yourself 2-3 weeks off to install our distribution' way like gentoo.
finally theres the 'let me install a basis and configure it as i want' distribution, i am so happy about that. thanx!
i have some trouble getting into the package management. i have read several posts mentioning xpdf but if i do a 'pacman -Q xpdf' i only get a 'package xpdf not found'
so there are two questions coming up:
a) where's xpdf
b) how can i search the package system?
thanx in advance
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first you have to install it:
pacman -S xpdf
then you can search your local packages with
pacman -Q xpdf, pacman -Qs xpdf, etc.
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great, thanx, not the first time i confused S and Q :-/
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hello,
hello
b) how can i search the package system?
You can search available packages by
pacman -Ss (packagename)Take a look at the wiki/manpages for more pacman commands
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as pressh said, to search what's in the repos you can use -Ss (sorry, misread you on that one). you can also search directly from the web in that "package search" box on the main page, and narrow your search to specific repos, category, etc. on the search database page.
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