How to filter installed packages in Pacman -Ss

I want to search a package in the repos but I don't want to see installed packages, I want to see only uninstalled packages. Is it possible? It is not very important or urgent, but I want to know if it is possible.

@Trilby, @ progandy
Thank you for your posts.
@progandy
I wrote a simple bash function with your answer, now I have what I want. Thank you again.
pacmanSs ()
if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
echo "Write something to search..."
else
pacman --color=always -Ss $1 | sed '/\S.*\[installed\]/,/^\s/d'
fi

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Run the command pacman -Qq and pacman -Qmq separately and try to find out why it breaks.
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Maybe I've miss something but when I pacman -Ss sth
I have a list of package related to this sth but it would be nice to know if it's already installed
Also yaourt include this feature already
Last edited by ChoK (2008-10-25 20:46:58)

Here's a script that you can use to search the repos and see which of the results you already have installed:
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import os
import re
# colors
CURRENT_VERSION="\x1B[0;32m" # used if installed version is the current version
OLDER_VERSION="\x1B[0;36m" # used if installed version is an older version
RESET="\x1B[0;39m" # the default color
def get_args():
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
return ' '+' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
else:
return ''
local_pkgs = {}
local_regex = re.compile('(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*(?:\n|$)')
local_list = os.popen('pacman -Q').read().rstrip()
for match in local_regex.findall(local_list):
(pkg,ver) = match
local_pkgs[pkg] = ver
search_regex = re.compile('((\S*?/)(\S+)\s+(\S+)(.*?)\n(\s+.*?)(?:\n|$))')
search_list = os.popen('pacman -Ss'+get_args()).read().rstrip()
for match in search_regex.findall(search_list):
(full,repo,pkg,ver,group,desc) = match
if local_pkgs.has_key(pkg):
if ver == local_pkgs[pkg]:
print "%s%s%s %s%s\n%s" % (CURRENT_VERSION,repo,pkg,ver,RESET,desc)
else:
print "%s%s%s %s%s\n%s" % (OLDER_VERSION,repo,pkg,ver,RESET,desc)
else:
print full.rstrip()
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naequs wrote:/e: removing the cache of not installed packages witch "pacman -Sc" did the trick for me
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shadow 4.1.2.1-2
skype 2.0.0.72-2
spamassassin 3.2.5-2
stellarium 0.10.2-1
sysfsutils 2.1.0-4
syslog-ng 3.0.1-6
sysvinit 2.86-4
tar 1.22-1
tcp_wrappers 7.6-8
texinfo 4.13a-3
texlive-bibtexextra 2008.11672-1
texlive-core 2008.11906-1
texlive-fontsextra 2008.11889-1
texlive-formatsextra 2008.10665-1
texlive-games 2008.11069-1
texlive-genericextra 2008.10640-1
texlive-htmlxml 2008.11896-1
texlive-humanities 2008.10502-1
texlive-latex3 2008.10126-1
texlive-latexextra 2008.11905-1
texlive-music 2008.7340-1
texlive-pictures 2008.10658-1
texlive-plainextra 2008.11339-1
texlive-pstricks 2008.11900-1
texlive-publishers 2008.11885-1
texlive-science 2008.11860-1
ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-6
ttf-dejavu 2.29-1
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-2
tzdata 2009f-1
udev 141-1
unrar 3.8.5-2
usbutils 0.73-5
util-linux-ng 2.14.2-1
vi 7.2.65-1
vnc 4.1.3-1
wget 1.11.4-1
which 2.20-1
wormux 0.8.3-1
wpa_supplicant 0.6.9-1
xf86-video-intel 2.6.3-3
xf86-video-vesa 2.2.0-1
xfsprogs 3.0.0-1
xine-ui 0.99.5-4
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-1
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2
xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-2
xorg-server 1.6.1-1
xorg-server-utils 7.4-4
xorg-twm 1.0.4-2
xorg-utils 7.4-3
xorg-xinit 1.1.1-1
xterm 243-1
zlib 1.2.3.3-3
How does pacman list all explicit installed packages?

SamC wrote:Those most likely are the explicitly installed packages, including ones installed as part of a group and as part of the base install.
Ok thanks, that explains it. I've expected a lists with only the later installed packages and only the group names.
(I come from Gentoo, and thought/hoped pacman -Qe is like the world file...)
Last edited by oneway (2009-04-21 05:35:12)

How do I install a specific version of nvidia?

I am noob coming from Gentoo. How do I install a specific version of nvidia? The new one (169.09-2) does not work well with my video playback (choppy). I know that for whatever reason, the 169.04 beta version works on my hardware better than any other version. How do I install it the pacman way, instead of using Nvidia's installer?

ABS and change the version I believe http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

Installed package

Hi,
How to find installed package in linux and its path.where the apache is located in linux.
[root@server2 /]# httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.0.52 > where this information stored in linux
Server built: Aug 31 2005 10:47:52
how to find the location of Apache/2.0.52 i tried
[root@server2 /]# which Apache/2.0.52
/usr/bin/which: no 2.0.52 in (./Apache)
[root@server2 /]# which Apache
/usr/bin/which: no Apache in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)
[root@server2 /]#
Edited by: user3266490 on Jul 8, 2009 6:40 AM
Edited by: user3266490 on Jul 8, 2009 7:42 AM
Edited by: user3266490 on Jul 8, 2009 7:43 AM

I do not understand your question.
the version of the apache server can be listed with httpd -vthe location of the apache server can be listed with which httpdthe rpm package which contains the httpd executable can be listed with rpm -qf `which httpd`

How to install packages from local folder

Hi all,
I have downloaded all arch linux packages from the following URLs:
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/i686/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/community/os/i686/
and then have saved them to an external hard disk. Then I have attached that external hard disk to my system and packages are available in following folders:
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Core-OS/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-2/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-1/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-2/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-3/
Now I want to install some or all packages from these folder with the help of pacman command. I am seeing that package corresponding to wvdial command is available in the /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/ folder. But how to use pacman command so that I can install wvdial package from that folder?
In addition to this if I want to install ALL Extra Packages available in the folders /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/ and /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-2/ then how to execute the pacman command?
Please send me step by step instructions so that I shall be able to install some or all downloaded packages.
I shall remain thankful for this forever.
Best Regards ...
Pankaj Kumar

Hi fukawi2,
Thanks for reply and searching for my username on google. It is true that I am a freelance s/w developer but I am not installing Arch Linux for any client. I am installing it due to some other reasons. In fact I started working on Red Hat and then on Fedora when I was a student of bachelor degree course in computer applications. Then later I searched open suse and started using it. I am using open suse from its 10.1 version. However the recent version of this distribution has become much resource consuming. So I am in the need of a light weight linux distribution. And I encountered Arch Linux. Then I purchased its installation disk from an online shop and installed it on my system. But only text mode is working at this moment. Since I want to use X window and so I started to follow the syntax of pacman command. But it is connecting to internet. Since my internet connection is slow (average speed of 10kbps) and so I requested the same online shop to download all packages from Arch Linux repository and send them to me. Therefore now I am having all those packages in my local external hard disk drive in the folder mentioned in my first post. Now I want to install packages from these folder. And so in order to get help I have come to this forum.
I have also followed the steps given on the pages https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_commands and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … repository. But when I am trying to install a particular package using the following command:
pacman -U wvdial
then it is asking for a dependency. I know that the dependent package in my local folder but why it is not being automatically taken by pacman command? Can you please explain it.
That is why I am asking help only for customization and usages of pacman in order to install packages from local folder. But each member in this forum is only referring to long written manuals and not giving me exact solution which I think will involve four/five steps.
Best Regards ...
Pankaj Kumar

Pacman isn't showing all the installed packages

Hey guys!
Since last week pacman isn't showing all the installed packages in my system. If I issue the command pacman -Q it just returns the following packages:
a52dec 0.7.4-4
acl 2.2.49-2
alsa-lib 1.0.23-2
atk 1.32.0-1
attr 2.4.44-2
avahi 0.6.28-1
bash 4.1.009-3
bzip2 1.0.6-1
cairo 1.10.2-1
cairo-perl 1.061-3
compositeproto 0.4.2-1
coreutils 8.10-1
cracklib 2.8.18-1
damageproto 1.2.1-1
db 5.1.19-3
dbus 1.4.1-1
dbus-core 1.4.1-1
desktop-file-utils 0.18-1
e2fsprogs 1.41.14-1
expat 2.0.1-6
faac 1.28-2
ffmpeg 20110121-2
filesystem 2010.12-1
findutils 4.4.2-3
fixesproto 4.1.2-1
fontconfig 2.8.0-1
freetype2 2.4.4-2
gcc-libs 4.5.2-6
gdbm 1.8.3-8
gdk-pixbuf2 2.22.1-1
gettext 0.18.1.1-1
glib-perl 1.223-2
glib2 2.26.1-1
glibc 2.13-1
gmp 5.0.1-2
gnutls 2.10.4-1
gtk2 2.22.1-1
gtk2-perl 1.222-2
gzip 1.4-2
heimdal 1.3.3-4
iana-etc 2.30-1
imagemagick 6.6.7.3-1
inputproto 2.0.1-1
kbproto 1.0.5-1
lame 3.98.4-1
lcms 1.19-1
libarchive 2.8.4-2
libcap 2.20-1
libcups 1.4.6-1
libdaemon 0.14-1
libdatrie 0.2.4-1
libdrm 2.4.23-1
libdv 1.0.0-3
libdvdread 4.1.3-2
libfetch 2.33-1
libgcrypt 1.4.6-1
libgl 7.10-1
libgpg-error 1.9-2
libice 1.0.7-1
libjpeg 8.3.0-1
libldap 2.4.23-1
libmp4v2 1.9.1-1
libmpeg2 0.5.1-1
libogg 1.2.2-1.1
libpng 1.4.5-1
libsasl 2.1.23-5
libsm 1.2.0-1
libtasn1 2.8-1
libthai 0.1.14-1
libtheora 1.1.1-1
libtiff 3.9.4-1
libtool 2.4-2
libva 1.0.8-1
libvdpau 0.4.1-1
libvorbis 1.3.2-1
libvpx 0.9.5-2
libx11 1.4.1-1
libxau 1.0.6-1
libxaw 1.0.9-1
libxcb 1.7-1
libxcomposite 0.4.3-1
libxcursor 1.1.11-1
libxdamage 1.1.3-1
libxdmcp 1.1.0-1
libxext 1.2.0-1
libxfixes 4.0.5-1
libxft 2.2.0-1
libxi 1.4.1-1
libxinerama 1.1.1-1
libxml2 2.7.8-1
libxmu 1.1.0-1
libxpm 3.5.9-1
libxrandr 1.3.1-1
libxrender 0.9.6-1
libxt 1.0.9-1
libxv 1.0.6-1
libxxf86vm 1.1.1-1
linux-api-headers 2.6.37-1
lzo2 2.04-1
mjpegtools 1.9.0-4
ncurses 5.7-4
opencore-amr 0.1.2-1
openjpeg 1.3-3
openssl 1.0.0.d-1
orc 0.4.11-1
pacman 3.4.3-1
pacman-cage 2.9.8.2-4
pacman-mirrorlist 20101223-1
pam 1.1.3-1
pango 1.28.3-1
pango-perl 1.221-3
pcre 8.12-1
perl 5.12.3-1
perl-anyevent 5.24-1
perl-event 1.13-3
perl-event-execflow 0.64-2
perl-gtk2-ex-formfactory 0.66-2
perl-libintl-perl 1.20-2
pixman 0.20.2-1
popt 1.16-3
randrproto 1.3.2-1
readline 6.1.002-2
renderproto 0.11.1-1
schroedinger 1.0.10-1
sdl 1.2.14-6
shadow 4.1.4.2-4
shared-mime-info 0.90-1
sqlite3 3.7.5-1
tar 1.25-1
texinfo 4.13a-5
transcode 1.1.5-5
tzdata 2010o-1
util-linux-ng 2.18-4
videoproto 2.3.1-1
x264 20110115-1
xcb-proto 1.6-2
xextproto 7.1.2-1
xf86vidmodeproto 2.3.1-1
xineramaproto 1.2.1-1
xproto 7.0.20-1
xvidcore 1.2.2-1
xz 5.0.1-1
zlib 1.2.5-3
Here you can see a shot of my /var/lib/pacman/local directory, containing just a few directories related to the packages above.
I have a lot more installed in my system, eg. the holl KDE system.
Is there a command/workaround to make these missing packages appear again in pacman?!
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by estevao (2011-02-11 17:29:52)

Spider.007 wrote:
Leonid.I wrote:
mcmillan wrote:You probably can do some searching to track it down (or rewrite something similar if you know how) prior to going through with a complete reinstall.
... which (complete reinstall) will be required with high probability, since all the solutions proposed above will most likely break the system
Arch Linux is more than just GNU/Linux -- it's an adventure
I think your signature is either too sarcastic, or too much in contrast with what you are posting here. A damaged database is really no big deal, and the only things that the proposed solutions attempt to do is that pacman re-installs a package (which changes close to nothing in your actual installation) and then write that update to its database.
I do not agree with your statement that the probability of a required reinstall are high. Actually, I would say they are pretty low
There is nothing sarcastic about my sig. Indeed, what would be the fun of using a system, which never breaks?
Regarding the probability of a reinstall either my opinion, or yours is irrelevant for the topic of this discussion.
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the little thingie in the end of my post: ":)" . It's called smiley and was put there for a reason, you know...

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