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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Cannot search for "pacman"

"Your search returned no hits."

This cannot be right

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theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

Posts: 581

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Re: Cannot search for "pacman"

works fine

pacman -Ss pacman
core/pacman 3.3.0-3 (base)
    A library-based package manager with dependency support
core/pacman-mirrorlist 20090616-1 (base)
    Arch Linux mirror list for use by pacman
extra/namcap 2.3-1
    A Pacman package analyzer
extra/srcpac 0.6-1
    The pacman from-source wrapper
community/aqpm 1.3.3-1
    Qt wrapper around pacman's libalpm
community/pacman-contrib 3.3.0-1
    Utilities for use with the pacman package manager
community/pacupdate 0.1.1-2
    A simple update notifier for Arch Linux (pacman)
community/perl-cpanplus-pacman 0.3.5-1
    CPANPLUS::Dist plugin and script to create Arch Linux packages of CPAN
    modules
community/powerpill 16.0-12
    A wrapper for pacman that speeds up package retrieval by using aria2c for
    concurrent/segmented downloads.
community/shaman 1.2.0-1
    Complete frontend to libalpm/pacman and ABS written in Qt4
community/xpacman 0.11-4
    X pacman game (use z x / ' q keys)
community/xpacman2 1.002-2
    another X pacman game

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Ashren

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-06-13

Posts: 1,229

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Re: Cannot search for "pacman"

I think Rasi means on the forums.

I can confirm that pacman returns no hits on the forum search engine.

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Cannot search for "pacman"

lol
I searched for pacma, and I found a duplicate thread, where another user tried to search pacma for the same reason than me
I also found a potential answer in that same thread :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 18#p393718

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Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,094

Re: Cannot search for "pacman"

IIRC there is a bug open about this on the bug tracker, but since the flyspary is down, I can't dig it up

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jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: Cannot search for "pacman"

Workaround: Use Google site search or the "Arch Linux Forums (3rd Party - Google)" search plugin from here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine … =archlinux