Searching package with pacman ?

Hi,
Question : How can I search the repository of pacman with some keyword : exemple : *fire*
The reason :
I'm trying to get started by installing fluxbox and firefox. While fluxbox can be installed with "pacman -Sy fluxbox", I cannot do the same for firefox. I tried finding the command to search the repositiory for any package with *fire* but failed.
Any good tips on how to find package without having to use a browser to download a file ?

o_O You really want to print out the pacman manual.. i think.
You can print it out like this:
/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz'| /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc -c|lpr
Should work, I just tried it.
edit: I suppose you could do that with all manpages and if this http://www.patoche.org/LTT/printer/00000141.html works(although you would have to change all */local/* paths): man-page printing becomes even more practical!
Now, remember to read some of it too: not just print it out XD

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Searching packages with Pacman

Im having trouble finding packages using pacman. I want to search all the repo's for the package I want, but If I don't get the package name exactly right, i get the message
error: 'openoffice': not found in sync db
These are the two commands that I have tried to use to look for packages
pacman -S packagename
and
pacman -Q packagename
but I can't get anything. What is the proper way to search for packages?
thanks,bj

Here is what I use: I got it somewhere on these forums, but I like it. put this in your .bashrc:
## Create a colorized pacman
alias pac='pacsearch'
pacsearch () {
echo -e "$(pacman -Ss $@ | sed \
-e 's#core/.*#\\033[1;31m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
-e 's#extra/.*#\\033[0;32m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
-e 's#community/.*#\\033[1;35m&\\033[0;37m#g' \
-e 's#^.*/.* [0-9].*#\\033[0;36m&\\033[0;37m#g' )"

Downloading package with pacman, how many threads?

When I download packages with pacman it start at slow speed and then goes up, this produces some kind of delay between downloads, especially for lots of small packages. I know this can feel like not a big problem, but you know, comparing with yum centos it seems kinda slow, seems like pacman download packages 1 thread at a time while yum it is like multi threaded because every package is downloaded consequentially without speed loss. Is there somekind of tweak for this?
Last edited by natostanco (2012-04-28 10:16:13)

There's a nice entry in the wiki about this, although I'd use Xyne's pm2ml instead of powerpill-light. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Im … oad_Speeds http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pm2ml/

Search for packages with pacman

Normally I searched for packages with packman -Ss ...
But is there a posiblity that it shows only that packages wich i havent installed?

pacman -Ss <packagename>
shows packages in the repositories you have specified in /etc/pacman.conf, whether they are installed or not
pacman -Q
will list the packages installed on your system

Root partition suddenly full while updating packages with Pacman

Hello
I'm not sure if this is a problem with Pacman, but my root partition seems to have become completely full while updating my system using pacman -Syu. Before updating anything, there seems to have been an update to a new version of Pacman (3.3.1-1) that needed to be installed before updating packages.
In the middle of the updates, I got this error:
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
Also, I don't know if this is related, but I got a lot of 'not found' errors after that.
The entire output from everything:
~ $ sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 34.6K 101.4K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
extra 427.5K 394.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
community 374.7K 362.2K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): pacman-3.3.1-1
Total Download Size: 0.60 MB
Total Installed Size: 2.10 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64 618.9K 455.6K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading pacman [#####################] 100%
~ $ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (42): taglib-extras-1.0.1-1 qt-4.5.3-2 liblastfm-0.3.0-4
loudmouth-1.4.3-1 libmtp-0.3.7-1.1 amarok-2.2.0-1 apr-1.3.9-1
db-4.8.24-1 apr-util-1.3.9-3 apache-2.2.13-3 bluez-4.54-1
python-2.6.3-1 dbus-python-0.83.0-2.1 device-mapper-2.02.53-1
eclipse-3.5.1-1 gpm-1.20.6-3 perl-5.10.1-3 groff-1.20.1-3
vim-7.2.266-1 gvim-7.2.266-2 heimdal-1.2.1-7 inkscape-0.46-13
iproute2-2.6.29-2 lib32-db-4.8.24-1 lib32-heimdal-1.2.1-7
libical-0.44-1 libsasl-2.1.23-2 lm_sensors-3.1.1-2
lvm2-2.02.53-1 nexuiz-data-2.5.2-1 nexuiz-2.5.2-1
redland-1.0.9-4 openoffice-base-3.1.1-2 pam-1.0.4-2
php-5.3.0-5 pstoedit-3.50-1 ruby-1.9.1_p243-2 soprano-2.3.1-1
texlive-bin-2009.4-1 texlive-core-2009.15574-1 wget-1.12-1
xchat-2.8.6-5
Total Download Size: 1354.95 MB
Total Installed Size: 2035.02 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
db-4.8.24-1-x86_64 4.7M 432.0K/s 00:00:11 [#####################] 100%
device-mapper-2.02.... 479.0K 287.9K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
gpm-1.20.6-3-x86_64 173.2K 243.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
perl-5.10.1-3-x86_64 13.5M 412.5K/s 00:00:33 [#####################] 100%
groff-1.20.1-3-x86_64 4.1M 365.7K/s 00:00:12 [#####################] 100%
heimdal-1.2.1-7-x86_64 2.8M 368.5K/s 00:00:08 [#####################] 100%
iproute2-2.6.29-2-x... 489.0K 303.8K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
libsasl-2.1.23-2-x86_64 118.5K 252.4K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
lvm2-2.02.53-1-x86_64 930.3K 327.3K/s 00:00:03 [#####################] 100%
pam-1.0.4-2-x86_64 537.8K 289.5K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
wget-1.12-1-x86_64 672.4K 308.0K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
qt-4.5.3-2-x86_64 26.9M 418.8K/s 00:01:06 [#####################] 100%
liblastfm-0.3.0-4-x... 223.4K 252.0K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
loudmouth-1.4.3-1-x... 80.8K 183.8K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
libmtp-0.3.7-1.1-x86_64 439.4K 309.5K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
amarok-2.2.0-1-x86_64 10.9M 486.0K/s 00:00:23 [#####################] 100%
apr-1.3.9-1-x86_64 328.5K 332.4K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
apr-util-1.3.9-3-x86_64 237.6K 322.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'apache-2.2.13-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Connection timed out
error: failed retrieving file 'apache-2.2.13-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'apache-2.2.13-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
bluez-4.54-1-x86_64 671.6K 361.7K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
python-2.6.3-1-x86_64 15.2M 442.0K/s 00:00:35 [#####################] 100%
dbus-python-0.83.0-... 177.4K 225.6K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
eclipse-3.5.1-1-x86_64 162.0M 457.1K/s 00:06:03 [#####################] 100%
vim-7.2.266-1-x86_64 8.6M 437.9K/s 00:00:20 [#####################] 100%
gvim-7.2.266-2-x86_64 1115.4K 216.9K/s 00:00:05 [#####################] 100%
inkscape-0.46-13-x86_64 18.4M 464.6K/s 00:00:41 [#####################] 100%
libical-0.44-1-x86_64 281.3K 283.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
lm_sensors-3.1.1-2-... 133.2K 228.9K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
redland-1.0.9-4-x86_64 307.4K 275.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'openoffice-base-3.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/php-5.3.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'php-5.3.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'php-5.3.0-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/pstoedit-3.50-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'pstoedit-3.50-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pstoedit-3.50-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ruby-1.9.1_p243-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'ruby-1.9.1_p243-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'ruby-1.9.1_p243-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/soprano-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'soprano-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'soprano-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/texlive-bin-2009.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-bin-2009.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-bin-2009.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/texlive-core-2009.15574-1-any.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-core-2009.15574-1-any.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'texlive-core-2009.15574-1-any.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xchat-2.8.6-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device
error: failed retrieving file 'xchat-2.8.6-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'xchat-2.8.6-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
~ $
Also, I haven't restarted my system yet. Should I try and see what happens?
Thanks!

This happened to me recently. I could not restart my laptop properly due to lack of space on my root partition.
The error during boot was along the lines of:-
Starting D-BUS system messagebus - Failed
Failed to start message bus: Failed to close "var/run/dbus.pid": No space left on drive
Hardware Abstraction Layer - Failed
everything else during the boot was as normal till I started to type in my username - but couldn't because the keyboard was inactive.
I used a Wolvix live CD to investigate and found a QT4 file in the packman cache which was 6.9GB in size (compared to the normal 27mb size). Once that was deleted and the drive/partition error checked everything was back to normal. So before you reboot I would definitely recommend clearing any oversize file out of your packman cache, or just clearing the whole cache.
Last edited by Nixie (2009-10-05 17:16:13)

How to install multiple packages with pacman?

Hi ,
I guess it's a pretty noobish question but I wonder how to install multiple packages
that have the same prefix with Pacman.
To make myself more clear, I like to install all gstreamer packages and for that I would
like something similar to
pacman -S gstreamer10*
Is there a command that does something like this available? Found nothing in the man pages.
Maybe some tricky stuff with pipes?

sH wrote:Hi ibendiben,
thanks for your help, but I'm afraid, it does not work
I'm so sorry, my fault, I couln't test it, and made some big mistakes.
This time it's working:
pacman -S $(pacman -Ss gstreamer0.10 | sed -n 's#^$[^/]*/gstreamer0.10[^ ]*$ .*$#\1#p')

[SOLVED]error when trying to find a package with pacman-Ss

gives me the following error
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/clutter-gtk-0.10.2-1/depends: No such file or directory
any solution thanks
Last edited by jccl1706 (2010-03-16 19:03:27)

Did you try with: pacman -Ss. (space between pacman and -Ss argument)
Last edited by n0dix (2010-03-16 18:41:51)

[SOLVED] searching a package with pacman/yaourt

Sometimes i encounter a crash of kmix application on OS bootup. When i try submitting a bug report, it says that "The generated crash information is probably not useful'. The needed packages say i should be having, among others, 'libQtGui.so.4'
How do i search which package provides this file? I have tried a few options with -Q and -S, but that doesn't seem to work. Any pointers?
Last edited by njathan (2012-03-17 10:13:03)

njathan wrote:
Thanks much!
[edit] BTW i could not find pkgutils, but pkgtools
Sorry, pkgtools is the one

I've developed a way to AUR search+install with pacman via proxy

at the moment it's not complete, and the database is up-to-date only as of Oct-16-2007;; but i believe it's in a stable position to be tested ..
i look forward to your feedback
so anyway .. i call it alaura, and it is a system developed in python to create a pacman database in order to allow
users to search as they normally would, and simply issue a command .. pacman -S pkg-in-aur and have that
pkg installed as they would any other pkg ...
add
[alaura]
Server = http://arch.u54.eu/repo
to your pacman.conf
the client side of the system is basically, download pkg from alaura repo, that pkg has an install script,
the install script removes the (alaura)proxy pkg and then uses yaourt(i hope to develop a simpler installer that does one job) to install the pkg from aur
. ad oh, the repo is generated using gradgrind's gen_repo script
so far i've only indexed 100 pkgs :: `pacman -Sl alaura`
more details will be published soon, i have to go study now ...
Last edited by kumico (2007-10-17 12:07:24)

no one seemed interested, so when i switched to using a laptop i didn't take the code with me, i have a slightly older version somewhere though,
i have exams this week but i will prolly squeeze a tester out, i still have my design of the system somewhere as well so it shouldn't be too difficult to pickup where i left off
thanks for taking an interest.

[Solved] Recommend a package with pacman for "Command Not Found"

Is there a way to get Pacman to recommend a package name like in ubuntu, for example:
If I were to type in a terminal ifconfig and it said "Command not found"
Could Pacman recommend the package net-tools?
Last edited by jack9099 (2011-08-03 14:33:39)

The pkgtools package will do this for you.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgtools for instructions on how to set it up.
Last edited by szim90 (2011-08-03 14:25:58)

[Solved]Cannot install any package with pacman

Hi,
today i tried a system update via pacman -Syu and i get these error messages
Konnte Datei 'curl-7.19.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' nicht von ftp.archlinux.org übertragen : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
so it seems that these files are not on the servers
i have already tried different mirrors even the archlinux.org one
Last edited by kanim (2009-08-18 09:08:19)

It is fixed. You just need to be patient and wait for the mirrors to resync. As many mirrors need to resync all the repo packages, there are not enough bandwidth for all the mirrors. So it will take some time. ftp.archlinux.org is a mirror just like the other ones. The only difference is that we are the ones in charge of it.
For details on what happened, see:
http://archlinux.me/brain0/2009/08/16/s … l-scripts/

AUR package not showing up with pacman -Qm

So, according with this topic, the OP couldn't find the chromium-pepper-flash package with pacman -Qm, but for me it shows up on the search (I have installed it from the AUR, with makepkg). Currently this package is located in the AUR.
I wonder why the OP couldn't find it? I mean, if this is an external package, not in the official repos, shouldn't it *always* shows up with pacman -Qm? Please notice that the OP didn't know at the time how he has installed this package, but I can't see other way if not with makepkg or with an AUR helper.
Last edited by thiagowfx (2014-01-10 21:37:25)

thiagowfx wrote:I wonder why the OP couldn't find it? I mean, if this is an external package, not in the official repos, shouldn't it *always* shows up with pacman -Qm?
The only thing that I can think of is that it was installed from a repository, because pacman -Qm lists all the packages which uou have installed which are not from any local databases stored on your computer.

No matter what I do with pacman, I get Server error

error: directive 'Server' with a value not recognized
error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 274: problem in options section
error: failed retrieving file
Comment off line 274 in the mirrorlist and the next uncommented line is the problem, no matter what I'm trying to install or remove.

I'm new to arch and pacman, but I've been a linux user for years. I installed archlinux a week or two ago and I have been adding and deleting various packages with pacman with no issues until today.
I won't waste space here with the entire mirrorlist, but here is an example line where the error occurs of the line is uncommented...
#Server = http://mirrors.xmission.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
and here is the /etc/pacman.conf file...
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

[SOLVED] Cannot install any package thru pacman

I cannot install any package thru pacman
when i try to install the package with pacman -S,
I started getting error when my sytem crashed and i have to forcefully switch off my laptop through power button
after that when i install anything from pacman i got following error:
[tan@ARCH ~]$ sudo pacman -S shotwell
Password:
warning: shotwell-0.9.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): shotwell-0.9.3-1
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 9.12 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity [##########] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########] 100%
(1/1) upgrading shotwell [##########] 100%
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libgexiv2.so.0.0.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libgexiv2.so.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libgexiv2.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libraw.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libraw.so.2 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libraw_r.so.2 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libraw.so.2.0.1 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libraw_r.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libraw_r.so.2.0.1 is empty, not checked.
Thanks in advance
Last edited by tan (2011-05-29 05:45:28)

Thank God, everything is fixed now:
First, I deleted all these files, then i follows the following procedure
1. For libgexiv2 file i upgraded 'xorg-server, xorg-xinit, xorg-utils, xorg-server-utils' from pacman
# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils
2. For libraw file i upgraded 'libraw' from pacman
# pacman -S libraw
There will be some conflicting files
After deleting some conflicting files it solves the problem and restore all the 'lib' file.

Reinstalling all installed packages using pacman

I feel my installation is corrupted .volcontrol muted on every boot,nautilus crashing,etc and more.
So,I though of reinstalling whole Gnome-2.22
I got below script somewhere in this forum or wiki maybe:but the script is erring out :?
please help !
pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")
and got the below error message
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)
Last edited by praka123 (2008-04-24 14:47:47)

Run the command pacman -Qq and pacman -Qmq separately and try to find out why it breaks.
pacman -Q displays all packages, pacman -Qm displays the packages that are not in any repos, that is the packages you installed manually == foreign packages. You can't reinstall these foreign packages with pacman -S by definition.
So you have to filter them out of pacman -Q output.
pacman -S $(pacman -Qq) fails here, because I have 3 foreign packages, but pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)") works.

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