[SOLVED] How do you search the repositories with Pacman for packages?

dkuo1128 · 2008-08-25 05:09:19

I'm looking for the pacman equivalent to

 aptitude search <package name>

the backstory (for those interested):
i am trying to install the aurora gtk engine, so I tried

 pacman -S gtk-engine-aurora

modelling after the suggestion in the Beginner's guide to install gtk-engine-murrine after a GNOME install. Pacman found no such package or package group.

Next, I looked at the wiki and at man pacman... and learned that pacman -Q <package name> queries the package database for packages, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I think it only searches the database of installed packages.

Last edited by dkuo1128 (2008-08-25 05:31:38)

Inxsible · 2008-08-25 05:13:00

Hit the man pages.

pacman -Ss <package-name>

you can also enter part of the package name. Try a search for just "gtk-engine" or just "gtk-" maybe.

You are correct about the -Q option. It does check only the installed (i.e. the local) packages.

Also, the packages may or may not have the same name as in Ubuntu or Debian or any other distro for that matter.

Last edited by Inxsible (2008-08-25 05:15:24)

Inxsible · 2008-08-25 05:16:03

i just searched and i got this output

inxs ~ > pacs gtk-engine
extra/gtk-engines 2.14.3-1
    Theme engines for GTK+ 2
extra/gtk1-engines 0.12-1
    Theme-Engines and Themes for GTK+ 1 - including gtk-engines-pixmap
community/gtk-aurora-engine 1.4-1
    gtk-engine: latest member of the clearlooks family
community/gtk-engine-murrine 0.53.1-1
    GTK2 engine to make your desktop look like a 'murrina', an italian word
    meaning the art glass works done by Venicians glass blowers.
inxs ~ >

Last edited by Inxsible (2008-08-25 05:17:10)

dkuo1128 · 2008-08-25 05:30:20

How did you get "pacs" to replace pacman -Ss?

Allan · 2008-08-25 05:32:18

It will be a bash alias. In your ~/.bashrc file put:

alias pacs='pacman -Ss'

Inxsible · 2008-08-25 05:51:12

my exact alias is like so: It gives me a nice colorized version of different repos

alias pacs="pacsearch"                  # colorize pacman (pacs)
pacsearch () 
{
  echo -e "$(pacman -Ss $@ | sed \
  -e 's#core/.*#\\033[1;31m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#extra/.*#\\033[0;32m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#community/.*#\\033[1;35m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#^.*/.* [0-9].*#\\033[0;36m&\\033[0;37m#g' )"
}

I copied this from the bashrc thread on this forum itself. I don't rbr who put this out first....but the credit goes to him/her

Last edited by Inxsible (2008-08-25 05:51:53)

Misfit138 · 2008-08-25 12:43:38

Inxsible wrote:

my exact alias is like so: It gives me a nice colorized version of different repos
alias pacs="pacsearch"                  # colorize pacman (pacs)
pacsearch () 
{
  echo -e "$(pacman -Ss $@ | sed \
  -e 's#core/.*#\\033[1;31m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#extra/.*#\\033[0;32m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#community/.*#\\033[1;35m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#^.*/.* [0-9].*#\\033[0;36m&\\033[0;37m#g' )"
}
I copied this from the bashrc thread on this forum itself. I don't rbr who put this out first....but the credit goes to him/her

It's from the wiki.

carlocci · 2008-08-25 15:32:05

Inxsible wrote:

my exact alias is like so: It gives me a nice colorized version of different repos
alias pacs="pacsearch"                  # colorize pacman (pacs)
pacsearch () 
{
  echo -e "$(pacman -Ss $@ | sed \
  -e 's#core/.*#\\033[1;31m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#extra/.*#\\033[0;32m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#community/.*#\\033[1;35m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
  -e 's#^.*/.* [0-9].*#\\033[0;36m&\\033[0;37m#g' )"
}
I copied this from the bashrc thread on this forum itself. I don't rbr who put this out first....but the credit goes to him/her

But you have to wait until the search is finished this way!

delor · 2008-08-26 05:34:57

or use pacman-color

shining · 2008-08-26 09:03:38

There is also an advanced version of this pacsearch bash script :
the pacsearch perl script from the pacman-contrib package

Profjim · 2008-08-26 15:11:52

Re: the colorize script having to wait for the search to finish...You can change the:
echo -e "$(pacman ... | sed ...)"
to just:
pacman ... | sed ...
The only thing is you'll need some way to get sed to interpret the escapes (the \033s) as such. One way would be to delete all the '\\033' and replace them with literal escapes (type ctrl-v, then type escape and your shell will insert a literal escape). That's fragile though: if you copy or paste the script your escapes could get turned into the two characters '^' followed by '['. Another way would be to change the sed arguments from this:
-e '...\\033...'
to this:
-e $'...\033...'
or this:
-e $'...\e...'

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#1 2008-08-25 05:09:19

[SOLVED] How do you search the repositories with Pacman for packages?

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