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bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

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How do I browse available applications?

Hi All,

How do I look for particular applications in pacman/shaman? For example, how do I look for all available kdemod games, or look for all office application is the repository. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to search.

My daughter wanted to find all "photo" application for touching up images, I had to tell her to do a google search for all linux+photo+editing keywords, the I would see if they are in the repositories,  but surely there must be a application that will allow me to do that on the pacman repositories themselves?:/

Many Thanks,
Bernie

Allan

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Re: How do I browse available applications?

pacman -Ss keyword

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: How do I browse available applications?

also, but in the browser: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and http://aur.archlinux.org/ for unsupported packages.

skualito

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Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 203

Re: How do I browse available applications?

There's also tupac
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13322

you can use it as

tupac -Ss photo editing

or

[~]$ tupac -Ss game rpg
1 community/freedroidrpg 0.12.1-2
    a mature science fiction role playing game set in the future
2 aur/eternallands 1.8.0-1 (70 votes)
    A free 3D MMORPG game with thousands of on-line players

**CUT**

13 aur/naev 0.3.9-1 (15 votes)
    2D action/rpg space game

for example

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: How do I browse available applications?

also, but in the browser: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and http://aur.archlinux.org/ for unsupported packages.

llent,

Excellent, thanks all. In particular I like the web site package search, the resulting output is much easier to read than "pacman -Ss keyword(s)"

Cheers,
Bernie:D

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: How do I browse available applications?

By the way, what is the best way to say find what all the applications are included in the various kdemod releases, i.e kdemod-minimal, kdemod, kdemos-complete ..

Thanks,
Bernie

Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Re: How do I browse available applications?

try kdemod's website, I'm sure they have a listing, if not go to their server and see their packages manually (where you would normally add the repo to your pacman.conf, look it up in your browser).  Many of kdemod's packages are already in arch repos, just repackaged for kdemod.

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mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: How do I browse available applications?

By the way, what is the best way to say find what all the applications are included in the various kdemod releases, i.e kdemod-minimal, kdemod, kdemos-complete ..

Thanks,
Bernie

Each of those are groups, so you can find what's in a group with pacman -Sg [group-name] though that requires you to know what the group name is first.