Search repo with pacman

Pyntux · 2009-08-12 17:14:54

I can`t find, if ther`s way, how to search from only one repo. When I do:

pacman -Ss package_name

pacman search all repos I have in /etc/pacman.conf. But how to search only from one repo if I know that some package is in extra repo for example? Something like:

pacman -Ss extra/package name (or near to name),

or how to do that?

brisbin33 · 2009-08-12 17:22:33

with the exception of [testing] each package will reside in only one repo, so i don't quite understand why you wish to do this.

if you really want to narrow your search down by repo you could try something like this

pacman -Ss zenity | grep -A3 ^extra

# or

pacman -Sl extra | grep zenity

as possible workarounds. (the [extra] repo and zenity package are just examples).

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-08-12 18:03:50)

Pyntux · 2009-08-12 18:00:50

Because I want to install some package, but I don`t now exact name of that package so I search with pacman and see the name! Thanks for help!

djszapi · 2009-08-15 00:51:07

Yeah, that's the way now, but the developers will implement the regex searching sometimes, because it's reported more times on bugs.archlinux.org.

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#1 2009-08-12 17:14:54

Search repo with pacman

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Re: Search repo with pacman

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Re: Search repo with pacman

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Re: Search repo with pacman

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