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offray

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Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

Hi all,

I have two packages that I want to install. The first one, Lurch, ask for this packages:

    sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
    sudo apt-get install libavahi-gobject-dev
    sudo apt-get install libSM-dev
    sudo apt-get install libXrender-dev
    sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
    sudo apt-get install libXext-dev

I have tried to find their equivs in ArchLinux. Googling is not making things easier. There is any recommendation on this?

I would like also to find the ones for installing cyn.in.  Here are the Ubuntu 9.10 packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libjpeg62-dev libreadline5-dev wv  libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libsasl2-dev poppler-utils libdb-dev libldap2-dev python2.4-dev

I just need the general procedure to start with, after that I can find the packages by myself.

Thanks a lot for such great distro and community.

Cheers

skottish

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

Arch doesn't split the headers out from it's packages, so if you have libsm installed, you have Debian's -dev equivalent already.

linkmaster03

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

This is how to search for packages in pacman:

pacman -Ss <term>

fsckd

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

To add to what skottish said, if you know the contents of a Debian package, you can use pkgfile from pkgtools to find which Arch package a file is from.

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

A great resource for learning about pacman is the wiki. Very, very helpful.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

To add to what skottish said, if you know the contents of a Debian package, you can use pkgfile from pkgtools to find which Arch package a file is from.

+1 for pkgfile.

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

And finally, you should know that ABS and AUR exist. You probably don't have to reinvent the wheel and figure out how to build something that already exists in the AUR.

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danielrmt

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

This is how to search for packages in pacman:

pacman -Ss <term>

this and also http://www.archlinux.org/packages/

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offray

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

Hi,

And finally, you should know that ABS and AUR exist. You probably don't have to reinvent the wheel and figure out how to build something that already exists in the AUR.

I'm using yaourt at this moment. The problem is that neither Lurch nor cynin are in the community repositories. Seems that pkgfile is the proper way as said in this thread and also here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=645122

I will test and keep all of you posted.

Cheers

offray

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

Hi,

Arch doesn't split the headers out from it's packages, so if you have libsm installed, you have Debian's -dev equivalent already.

So I ave LibSM and LibXrender installed. But I can't find Arch packages for the rest of packages. I will try with the cyn.in packages.

JuseBox

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

How about using AUR?

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Re: Finding the ArchLinux equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu packages

Hi all,

I have two packages that I want to install. The first one, Lurch, ask for this packages:

    sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
    sudo apt-get install libavahi-gobject-dev
    sudo apt-get install libSM-dev
    sudo apt-get install libXrender-dev
    sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
    sudo apt-get install libXext-dev

I have tried to find their equivs in ArchLinux. Googling is not making things easier. There is any recommendation on this?

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev -> sudo pacman -S freetype2
sudo apt-get install libavahi-gobject-dev -> sudo pacman -S avahi
sudo apt-get install libSM-dev -> sudo pacman -S libsm
sudo apt-get install libXrender-dev -> sudo pacman -S libxrender
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev -> sudo pacman -S fontconfig
sudo apt-get install libXext-dev -> sudo pacman -S libxext

Simples...and no Googling necessary.  Search for the debian dev package at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages, search for the 'core' of the package name, e.g. freetype or avahi, in the Arch repos, and then compare the results.