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This tracker remains open for interaction with historical bugs during the transition period. Any new bugs reports will be closed without further action.
FS#854 - Searching installed packages for a string
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Pacman
Opened by wisam (potentials) - Thursday, 29 April 2004, 13:54 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 29 April 2004, 17:39 GMT
Opened by wisam (potentials) - Thursday, 29 April 2004, 13:54 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 29 April 2004, 17:39 GMT
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DetailsThe Query option does not include a search option such that included in Sync.
One can search for a string/word while using the sync option pacman -Ss foobar will return all the names and descriptions of packages in the repository which have the string "foobar" in their names or descriptions. But why can't one search the installed packages for some string, this might be very usefull specially if you want to upgrade/remove a package which you don't know its exact name. |
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