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Package Manager Search Commands

In a given week, I touch maybe a half dozen different Operating Systems/Distributions. Some are similar to others (centos, rhel), some--not so much (solaris). The common commands are easy enough to remember ( @ls@ vs @dir@ ), but I always forget how to search through each OS's package manager for a software package. For my reference (and perhaps yours?) here's a list for each of the OSs' package managers I use frequently:

yum - RHEL/CentOS

yum list

apt - Debian/Ubuntu

apt-cache search

pacman - Arch

pacman --sync --search pacman -Ss

portage - Gentoo

emerge --search # pkg names only emerge --searchdesc # pkg names & descriptions emerge -S # alias of --searchdesc  

See Also: "Install 'build-essential' on RHEL/CentOS and OpenSolaris":/wp/?p=231

Michael Altfield

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