[SOLVED] Install a single program

Question

Hello to everyone and sorry for my poor english.
I want to install "dig" package but I don't need the entire "dnsutils" group. It's possible?
And another question, how can I see all "dnsutils" packages? With another group, for example "kde", I can write "pacman -Sg kde" but it doesn't works with "dnsutils" group.
Thank You very much!
Last edited by alehox (2012-08-01 02:13:02)

Answer 1

alehox wrote:I know dnsutils it's a small package but I can't see the program list or the package contents of dnsutils with pacman? It's easy with the web
If there is such an option I am not aware of it.  It sounds like a good idea for a feature request - or for now you can try this, which I've called pac-list:
#!/bin/bash
repo=$(pacman -Ss $1 | awk 'NR==1 { gsub(/\/.*/,"",$1); print $1; }')
## uncomment only one of the following two lines:
#for arch in x86_64 any; do
for arch in i686 any; do
lynx -dump -width 1024 -nolist \
"http://www.archlinux.org/packages/$repo/$arch/$1/files/" | awk '
/Back to Package/ {show=1;}
/^[ \t]*\*/ {if (show==1) {print $2;} }'
done
edit: of course you can see contents once something is installed with `pacman -Ql <package name>`.
EDIT: oops that script will only occasionally work.  The url needs to be constructed a bit more wisely than that.  Perhaps I'll tinker with that later.
update: I've sacrified much elegance for some functionality.  This now seems to work for a majority of cases.  The two looped attempts seem odd to me, but as one should always fail silently, and the other work well, this seems to be a functional solution without having to look up whether the package is 686/x64 or 'any'.  I'm sure this will still fail occasionally, but my view on such scripts-of-convenience is to value simplicity over total failsafety.  It cannot fail in any dangerous way.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-08-01 02:32:57)