Newbie Pacman question [SOLVED]

ckeck · 2009-10-05 14:58:09

I am very new to ArchLinux (less than 24 hours exposure) and have one simple question so far...

I cannot seem to figure out why when I run:

pacman -Q apache

I get an error saying it cannot find any packages named apache, but when I do:

pacman -S apache

It magically finds apache and its required dependencies...what am I missing here? Just trying to understand this system a bit better.

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by ckeck (2009-10-05 15:36:16)

Crows · 2009-10-05 15:01:39

The second one is checking the repos for apache, while the first command is actually checking your system to see if you have a package called apache installed.

ckeck · 2009-10-05 15:08:04

Ah, so how can I properly query/search the repositories without installing?

schuay · 2009-10-05 15:09:22

pacman -Ss apache

read

man pacman

Last edited by schuay (2009-10-05 15:09:45)

ckeck · 2009-10-05 15:14:04

Thanks everyone -- I had read through it but I guess I missed that option. My mistake.

Loving Arch so far...any thoughts or advice if coming from mostly a Debian background? Finding a lot of little differences that are throwing me off

Mr.Elendig · 2009-10-05 15:50:24

If you are coming in from another distro; take a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_rosetta

ckeck · 2009-10-05 17:45:28

Mr.Elendig wrote:

If you are coming in from another distro; take a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_rosetta

Ah, now this is helpful! Thanks!

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