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lorano

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Registered: 2003-12-05

Posts: 18

pacman --search

I'm trying to use that to search for specific packages with X string in the description and I know gnome is in there =p but it's not outputting anything to my screen....

did the -- options get ninja changed and I missed it?

robot5x

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Registered: 2004-01-26

Posts: 266

Re: pacman --search

man pacman is probably your best friend here:)
As far as I know, pacman -Ss searches the package list,
pacman -Q queries the database and can be combined with different options...

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: pacman --search

-S and -Q are operations and are always needed in order for the options to work.

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