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bigh

Member

From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2004-03-23

Posts: 62

Search for packages with pacman

Normally I searched for packages with packman -Ss ...
But is there a posiblity that it shows only that packages wich i havent installed?

srey

Member

From: San Diego

Registered: 2004-02-06

Posts: 51

Re: Search for packages with pacman

pacman -Ss <packagename>

shows packages in the repositories you have specified in /etc/pacman.conf, whether they are installed or not

pacman -Q

will list the packages installed on your system

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