can we use wildcards in pacman?

geoffm · 2012-02-12 22:10:41

Is there a way to make pacman install all packages beginning with a certain string?
For exemple:

pacman -S kdeplasma-addons*

would install all packages starting with "kdeplasma-addons"
I'm actually surprised this doesn't work. I looked in the documentation but I don't find anything,

Last edited by geoffm (2012-02-12 22:11:47)

falconindy · 2012-02-12 22:21:28

No, but something like this will work:

pacman -Ssq <regex> | sudo pacman -S -

also related: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1561

desm0tes · 2012-02-12 22:22:01

Why don't you simply install kdeplasma-addons or kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons?

Last edited by desm0tes (2012-02-12 22:22:37)

karol · 2012-02-12 22:22:07

Try

pacman -S $(pacman -Ssq kdeplasma-addons*)

viking60 · 2012-02-13 21:38:11

Or

pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep kdeplasma-addons*)

karol · 2012-02-13 21:46:08

viking60 wrote:

Or

pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep kdeplasma-addons*)

This won't work. OP doesn't want to reinstall them.

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep kdeplasma-addons*)
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

Last edited by karol (2012-02-13 21:47:10)

viking60 · 2012-02-13 22:04:05

Ah yes I stand corrected ! - It's great for removing them again though:

pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qq | grep kdeplasma-addons*)

karol · 2012-02-13 22:11:35

Sure, but

pacman -Rns kdeplasma-addons

should work too.

I think falconindy posted the best general way of doing this.

desm0tes · 2012-02-13 22:25:28

karol wrote:

Sure, but
pacman -Rns kdeplasma-addons
should work too.

This should work only, when he initially installed the package group, as I suggested, instead of installing the individual packages...at least that's the case for metapackages.

viking60 · 2012-02-13 22:32:43

karol wrote:

Sure, but
pacman -Rns kdeplasma-addons
should work too.

I think falconindy posted the best general way of doing this.

Sure he is the guru.
The simple -Rns will often get you into a dependency hell - I learned that when removing all gnome-shell* . So there is a difference when using the wildcard AFAICT.

Last edited by viking60 (2012-02-13 22:39:29)

coxe87b · 2020-01-04 05:13:47

falconindy wrote:

No, but something like this will work:
pacman -Ssq <regex> | sudo pacman -S -
also related: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1561

Thank you for this solution.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why this needs the " - " on the end to work?

coxe87b · 2020-01-04 05:21:15

Nevermind, I found my answer.

" - " tacked on the end is the symbol for stdin

2ManyDogs · 2020-01-04 08:59:40

This thread is seven years old. Please do not necrobump.

Closing.

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