Discover the package a program belongs to possible?

Gen2ly · 2012-05-02 18:19:49

When I was using Ubuntu, they had a nice bash hook that if you typed a command on the command line and it was not found it would report something like:

 Program [program-name] is not installed.
  Possible canidates:
    program1 - a blah blah
    program2 - tools for...

Is there something like that for Arch?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2012-05-02 20:18:18)

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-02 18:21:32

Yes, pkgfile in community/pkgtools .

karol · 2012-05-02 18:34:32

Try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52305

Gen2ly · 2012-05-02 20:47:29

ConnorBehan wrote:

Yes, pkgfile in community/pkgtools .

Ah, thanks. Yeah, when I looked this up I found this tool but I thought I must have misunderstood its purpose after trying it,. I did:

pacman -S pkgtools
pkgfile --update
sudo sed -i 's/^CMD_SEARCH_ENABLED=0$/CMD_SEARCH_ENABLED=1/' /etc/pkgtools/pkgfile.conf
sudo -i
source /etc/profile
exit

and then ran udisks (it's not installed) and got, "bash: udisks: command not found. I have just discovered though that it does work. I ran this as regular user from tty1 and after I run sudo -i in gnome-terminal it works. Do you have any idea why it's not working as regular user from gnome-terminal?

karol wrote:

Try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52305

Ah, thanks karol. Hadn't seen this. Perhaps I'll use it if I can't get pkgfile to work.

WorMzy · 2012-05-02 21:56:54

Did you add

source /etc/profile

to your .zshrc/.bashrc?

Worked for me in urxvt as a normal user.

Gen2ly · 2012-05-04 02:25:47

WorMzy wrote:

Did you add
source /etc/profile
to your .zshrc/.bashrc?
Worked for me in urxvt as a normal user.

Thanks for the idea, WorMzy. No didn't work. And unfortunately now (after reboot) it's not working anywhere. Any more ideas?

xamaco · 2012-05-04 07:56:49

pacman -Qo name

Gen2ly · 2012-05-05 02:57:56

Yeah, I like the bash discovery method. pkgtool seem to be broke now, but just tried command-not found and it works great. Thanks for the reference karol.

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#1 2012-05-02 18:19:49

Discover the package a program belongs to possible?

#2 2012-05-02 18:21:32

Re: Discover the package a program belongs to possible?

#3 2012-05-02 18:34:32

Re: Discover the package a program belongs to possible?

#4 2012-05-02 20:47:29

Re: Discover the package a program belongs to possible?

#5 2012-05-02 21:56:54

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