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linuxhippy

Member

From: Philadelphia, PA

Registered: 2005-05-12

Posts: 18

pacman listing

I'm a couple days new to Arch, but 2 1/2 years into Linux and I like both.  I dual boot with Fedora Core and Arch on my P3 tower.  I really like pacman (I thought it was a game till I read more) and am wondering if it's possible to get a listing of the software the repositories have...that way I know how to spell the names?

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Marty

fetreney2000

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From: Malaysia

Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 81

Re: pacman listing

Just type

pacman -Ss {insert any keyword that you think reflect the software}

For example, if I want to install firefox I just type

pacman -Ss firefox

after that pacman will give you info of all package that has firefox in their name or description. You can choose the correct software from that listing.

linuxhippy

Member

From: Philadelphia, PA

Registered: 2005-05-12

Posts: 18

Re: pacman listing

found the answer in my palm pilot...I installed the pacman manpage with plucker:

pacman -l

List all files in the specified repositories. Multiple repositories can be specified on the command line.

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Marty