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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

pacman options

Just for fun (and maybe something else).
How do you use pacman? Ever tried other options? Experiments?

To show all packages installed locally with descriptions:

pacman -Qs ""

To show all packages from all repos in pacman.conf with descriptions:

pacman -Ss

...and to show only unstable repo (guest star grep)

 pacman -Ss | grep -A 1 unstable/

Where is my star from the sky - oh, these choices... :-)

pacman -Q *
Package "Choices" was not found.

Ok lets search for a star with

pacman -Qs *

and you will see something slooooow - all packages are equal but some are more equal then the others... :-)