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johnpatcher

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Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 70

[SOLVED] Where is hal-info?

Hi,

I've installed the package hal-info using pacman (pacman -S hal-info). It seems to be installed (pacman -Qq hal-info), but actually I don't know how to work with this package . According to this page I need to execute the command "hal-info", but there is no such command .

So what is this "hal-info" package actually doing, and how can I get my the version the article above is claiming for?

Best regards
johnpatcher

Last edited by johnpatcher (2009-09-01 10:33:53)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is hal-info?

There is no hal-info executable, and the page you linked to does not say you should execute hal-info. As the name implies, hal-info provides information files that hal uses - they are all installed in /usr/share/hal.

It would probably be better if you described the actual problem you're experiencing, and what you have done so far to solve it.

Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: [SOLVED] Where is hal-info?

pacman -Ql halinfo

shows you there is no binary, just a lot of data files.

johnpatcher

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Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Where is hal-info?

Ok, that was kind of stupid, the command listed in the article above is just using "rpm" in order to get the version numer. "pacman -Q hal-info" does quite the same.

It would probably be better if you described the actual problem you're experiencing, and what you have done so far to solve it.

I'm trying to get pm-suspend working, but so far I haven't got any luck .