[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

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Can't update/search/install packages via pacman or yaourt

Everything was fine until I manually installed package-query and yaourt and now I am unable to update/search/install packages via pacman or yaourt.
Earlier I was having trouble installing the package-query and yaourt packges using pacman so had to install them manually and now it wont connect to the repos.
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clfarron4 wrote:I usually advise against this (mainly because it's out-dated) but there is the [archlinuxfr] repository for installing yaourt, if you really insist on sticking with it. Once you're done, disable the repository though because everything except for yaourt is out-of-date by at least a month.
Don't ever suggest that. The repo is 100% useless since it is trivial to install yaourt from aur. Also yaourt/package-query in that repo is often broken/outdated.
Also it is not relevant to op's problem anyway. There were some routing issue to leseweb the other day, I also noticed it. Just switching mirror works fine.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2013-09-04 13:37:49)

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[SOLVED] search just package name (not description) with yaourt

Is there a way to search just package names (not package descriptions) with yaourt or pacman? I'm imagining something like this:
$ yaourt -Ss --pkgname-only xterm
Thanks!
Last edited by partner55083777 (2010-02-03 16:30:43)

My question still stands as to how I can search just package names. If it is using another program other than yaourt or pacman, that is okay.
"yaourt -Ss SEARCH_STRING" has been working as stated in the documentation for me (with yaourt-0.9.2.6). It will return all packages that have SEARCH_STRING in either the package name or package description.
Here are the first three results when running this command:
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extra/emacs 23.1-3 [installed]
The Emacs Editor
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GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX
and GNU Emacs. WYSIWYG editor TeX-fonts and CAS-interface (Giac, GTybalt,
Macaulay 2, Maxima, Octave, Pari, Qcl, R and Yacas) in one.
$
It looks like it works as specified in the man pages:
-s, --search <'regexp'>
This will search each package in the sync databases for names or descriptions that match regexp.
When you include multiple search terms, only packages with descriptions matching ALL of those terms will be returned.
Last edited by partner55083777 (2010-02-02 22:10:24)

How to Return List of Packages from Pacman/Yaourt Search

----EDIT----
Changed the name of the script from pacsearch to pacdot.
Apparently yaourt -Ssaq does this, so this script isn't as necessary as I thought. Although, I still find using pacdot -w to open the results in a text document helpful.
----/EDIT----
This isn't a question; it's a script I wrote. I thought someone else might find this useful.
I keep finding myself searching with pacman or yaourt and wishing I could get just the package names, not all of the extra stuff. For example, I'd love to be able to run yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssa package). It doesn't seem like pacman and yaourt have an option for this (not that I can tell, at least), so I wrote a python script to do it. Copy it if you'd like. You can name it what you want, but I'll refer to it as pacdot.py.
pacdot.py package will be like yaourt -Ssa package but only list the package names.
I added a few extra options:
pacdot.py -o package will only list results from the official Arch repositories, not the AUR.
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Write an example command that would install the found packages,
(yaourt -Sa all-of-the-results),
Write each result on a new line, and
Open the file for you (with your default text editor).
Here's the code:
#!/bin/python3
import argparse
import re
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call
from collections import deque
desc = ''.join(('Search the official Arch and AUR databases ',
'and return package names only. ',
'e.g.: `pacdot.py arch` will return "arch", ',
'whereas `$ yaourt -Ssa arch` will return ',
'"community/arch 1.3.5-10',
' A modern and remarkable revision control system."'
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=desc)
parser.add_argument('package',
help='Package to search with pacman')
parser.add_argument('-o', '--official', action='store_true',
help='Search official repositories only, not the AUR')
parser.add_argument('-i', '--install', action='store_true',
help='Install found packages')
parser.add_argument('-w', '--write', action='store_true',
help='Write to file')
#Set args strings.
args = parser.parse_args()
pkg = args.package
official_only = args.official
install = args.install
write = args.write
# Do yaourt search.
package_search = Popen(['yaourt', '-Ssa', '%s' % pkg], stdout=PIPE).communicate()
# Put each found package into a list.
package_titles_descs = str(package_search[0]).split('\\n')
# Strip off the packages descriptions.
package_titles = [package_titles_descs[i]
for i in range(0, len(package_titles_descs), 2)]
# Remove empty item in list.
del(package_titles[-1])
# Make a separate list of the non-aur packages.
package_titles_official = deque(package_titles)
[package_titles_official.remove(p)
for p in package_titles if p.startswith('aur')]
# Strip off extra stuff like repository names and version numbers.
packages_all = [re.sub('([^/]+)/([^\s]+) (.*)',
r'\2', str(p))
for p in package_titles]
packages_official = [re.sub('([^/]+)/([^\s]+) (.*)',
r'\2', str(p))
for p in package_titles_official]
# Mark the aur packages.
# (Not needed, just in case you want to modify this script.)
#packages_aur = packages_all[len(packages_official):]
# Set target packages to 'all' or 'official repos only'
# based on argparse arguments.
if official_only:
packages = packages_official
else:
packages = packages_all
# Print the good stuff.
for p in packages:
print(p)
if write:
# Write results to file.
filename = ''.join((pkg, '.txt'))
with open(filename, 'a') as f:
print(''.join(('Yaourt search for "', pkg, '"\n')), file=f)
print('To install:', file=f)
packages_string = ' '.join(packages)
print(' '.join(('yaourt -Sa', packages_string)), file=f)
print('\nPackage list:', file=f)
for p in packages:
print(p, file=f)
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call(('xdg-open', filename))
if install:
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for p in packages:
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'\033[0m')))
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Last edited by GreenRaccoon23 (2014-12-22 19:17:37)

expac works only with official and unofficial repos, not with the AUR, but it's very nice.
Adding '-q' should help, grep to weed out false positives.
yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssaq pulse)
works, but
$ yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssaq chrome)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
warning: removing 'chromium' from target list because it conflicts with 'chromium-no-sse2'
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: chromium-no-sse2 and chromium-scroll-pixelGs are in conflict
so at least
$ yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssaq chrome|grep google)
is needed.
Edit: Also:
$ LC_ALL=C TZ=GMT0 diff -Naur /usr/bin/pacsearch /usr/local/bin/pacsearch
--- /usr/bin/pacsearch 2014-11-21 11:20:37.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/local/bin/pacsearch 2014-12-21 08:21:14.758856006 +0000
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
my %allpkgs = ();
-my $syncout = `pacman -Ss '@ARGV'`;
+my $syncout = `pacman -Ssq '@ARGV'`;
# split each sync search entry into its own array entry
my @syncpkgs = split(/\n^(?=\w)/m, $syncout);
# remove the extra \n from the last desc entry
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
$allpkgs{$pkgfields[1]} = [ @pkgfields ];
-my $queryout = `pacman -Qs '@ARGV'`;
+my $queryout = `pacman -Qqs '@ARGV'`;
# split each querysearch entry into its own array entry
my @querypkgs = split(/\n^(?=\w)/m, $queryout);
# remove the extra \n from the last desc entry
$ /usr/local/bin/pacsearch pulse
libpulse
pulseaudio
libao
libcanberra-pulse
libpulse
paprefs
pavucontrol
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-alsa
floyd
libcec
mate-media-pulseaudio
mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio
ponymix
projectm-pulseaudio
Although why not simply use pacman or expac?
Last edited by karol (2014-12-21 08:26:48)

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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.
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You can print it out like this:
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Password:
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core is up to date
extra is up to date
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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:
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[solved] Can find sisctrl with pacman

I'm trying to install sisctrl. I need that tool in order to use my beamer with my laptop. The thing is, I can't find it with pacman. This command gives nothing:
pacman -Ss sisctrl
When I started Googeling on this, I found this page. So, it seems to be in Pacman. Or, at least had been in pacman.
Could anyone help me out to install the on my system?
Thanks a lot anyway
Last edited by mariourk (2007-10-13 19:29:23)

It worked like a charm. I have SiSCtrl up and running.
I learned another nice feature of ArchLinux today. And I'm really starting to like it too.
Thanks a lot for the help guys!
Last edited by mariourk (2007-10-13 15:45:38)

[SOLVED] Updating a package with renamed dependency using yaourt

I am trying to update aur/python2-epd-oss using yaourt. The problem is that the installed version depends on biopython and the new one depends on python2-biopython. When yaourt tries to replace biopython with python2-biopython I get this:
:: python2-biopython and biopython are in conflict. Remove biopython? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: python2-epd-oss: requires biopython>=1.57
and I never reach te point where aur/python2-epd-oss gets updated.
How should I update aur/python2-epd-oss? Is this a case to force the update?
Last edited by asafparis (2012-12-24 16:59:10)

pacman -R python2-epd-oss
yaourt -Syua # and answer yes
yaourt -S python2-epd-oss
This isn't really yaourt specific, you'd need to do something like this whenever AUR dependencies change names.
Yaourt advertises that it manages dependencies ... but it doesn't really.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-12-24 16:11:09)

Xmonad-darcs issue with pacman, yaourt and manually aur/abs [SOLVED]

Hello,
I'm having the craziest hard time trying to install xmonad-darcs. I can pacman -S xmonad xmonad-contrib fine, but when I copy some nice configs that I see a lot of modules cannot be found after starting x.
This is the error I am getting when trying to install from aur via abs:
$ makepkg -s
==> Determining latest darcs revision...
-> Version found: 20100418
==> Making package: xmonad-darcs 20100418-1 i686 (Sun Apr 18 23:09:26 EDT 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
==> Retrieving complete sources
darcs failed: Not a repository: http://code.haskell.org/xmonad (Failed to download URL http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/_darcs/inventory: Couldn't connect to server)
/home/woonasty/abs/xmonad-darcs/PKGBUILD: line 32: cd: /home/woonasty/abs/xmonad-darcs/src/xmonad: No such file or directory
<command line>:
Could not find module `Setup':
Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Is this package out of date because the repo dir is wrong?
vim PKGBUILD yields this:
1 # Contributor: adam vogt <vogt.adam<<at>>gmail.com>
2 # Package generated by cabal2arch 0.6
3 pkgname=xmonad-darcs
4 pkgrel=1
5 pkgver=20100418
6 pkgdesc="A tiling window manager"
7 url="http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmonad"
8 license=('custom:BSD3')
9 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
10 conflicts=('xmonad')
11 depends=('gmp' 'libxinerama' 'ghc' 'haskell-x11>=1.5.0.0' 'haskell-mtl')
12 makedepends=('darcs')
13 options=('strip')
14 source=()
15 install=xmonad.install
16 md5sums=()
17 _darcstrunk="http://code.haskell.org"
18 _darcsmod="xmonad"
If someone can point me in the right direction I'd love to contribute and fix this package and re-upload, I am a new Arch user and would like to get more involved........right after I get xmonad working lol.
thank you in advance,
sleeepy

sleepy wrote:nvm , mod please close thread i guess the site was temp down.
Sure thing.

[SOLVED] searching a package with pacman/yaourt

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