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Denacke

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Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get Jacman (Graphical front-end for pacman, it's in community repository I think) to work, but it seems to fail to detect when pacman asks a question seeing as I can't click Yes or No

Screen:

I've also noticed that I can't use sudo jacman to run it as root as it won't start then. It does start if I use 'su' and after I logged in then type jacman.

Could you guys help me out?

Last edited by Denacke (2008-04-09 19:21:14)

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

dont use jacman. its long out of date and unmaintained.

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Denacke

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Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Re: Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

Okay, Which one would be the better pick?

I used the first one on the list in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … _Frontends

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

im in favour of none. but search the aur for pacman.

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There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums.  That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)

fed359

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Registered: 2007-11-21

Posts: 46

Re: Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

I believe shaman is the most active pacman front-end right now, I gave it a try the other day and it seemed to work quite well. More information here

arooaroo

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

Posts: 1,268

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Re: Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

I know it looks like it, but Jacman isn't completely dormant. It's just that the way I wish to solve this problem is to sort out a wrapper for libalpm rather than console tricks. And this is something I've been working on recently, albeit slowly, thanks to a busy job and recently moving home.

However, I received this email from the creator of FaunOS, who patched Jacman to spawn a proper console rather than an emulated one, and that may be of interest to some:

Hi Andy,

My name is Raymano Garibaldi and I am the creator and main developer of FaunOS (http://www.faunos.com). I have been looking around for a GUI front-end to pacman to include in FaunOS for a long time and I have always liked yours the best. I especially like the intuitive search feature that you have implemented. Jacman is simply the best.

However I have been waiting a long time for an update without luck. With the help of a friend I was able to update jacman so it works with pacman 3.1. In order to simplify things instead of displaying the pacman output in jdialog we exec a call to konsole (KDE's console app) and it just works great. We only allow users to install, remove, or update packages.

I just wanted to ask your permission for including it in the upcoming release of FaunOS. We have called the new version kde-jacman. We can call it anything you'd like and we can rebrand it in any way you'd like it to be rebranded. We have an svn repo that has the latest java source code. This of course will be shared with our community once we release the upcoming version of FaunOS. We have also created a PKGBUILD for it on our website that you could build and try out.

# Source code
http://svn.faunos.com/src/kde-jacman/trunk

# PKGBUILD
http://svn.faunos.com/pkgbuilds/extra/kde-jacman/trunk

You can also get the package itself from our binary repo:
http://repo.faunos.com/kde-jacman-0.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

As I said this new version we have created relies on KDE and konsole to work but it is just working beautifully for us.

Thanks for your great work, and I hope you'd allow us to include our version jacman in our next release.

Raymano G.

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tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 347

Re: Jacman doesn't detect yes/no questions

shaman is impressive indeed, and probably the best product along this line ...