Can pacman do this ...

ralvy · 2006-10-25 02:37:38

I've been using Arch Linux for a while now (a couple of years, I think), and have always wanted pacman to be able to show me a list of packages fitting a certain search parameter, listing those installed and those not installed. For instance, say I want to see all the possible packages in my enabled repos that have something to do with xfce, but at the same time, I want to see which of those in the list I already have installed, and which I don't. To do this I have always done

pacman -Ss xfce
pacman -Qs xfce

in two different windows and browse each list.

Is there an easier way to do this? I find this way very cumbersome.

Echo · 2006-10-25 02:51:46

Is "pacsearch' maybe what you're looking for?

You could look in the wiki for details on pacsearch.

byte · 2006-10-25 03:17:33

I'm sure you would like yaourt.

ralvy · 2006-10-25 03:18:00

Echo wrote:

Is "pacsearch' maybe what you're looking for?
You could look in the wiki for details on pacsearch.

Thanks. That's *exactly* what I've wanted. However, when I run

pacsearch ^qt

or

pacsearch qt

or pacsearch with any package at all, I get absolutely no output.

ralvy · 2006-10-25 03:44:16

byte wrote:

I'm sure you would like yaourt.

Thanks, byte. After finding pacsearch gave me no output at all, I installed yaourt. Very nice. That does what I want. Thanks.

Echo · 2006-10-25 04:21:04

Pacsearch is working for me just fine.

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