whohas - find packages in various distributions' repositories
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Description
whohas is a command line tool to query package lists from the Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia,
Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware, Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, MacPorts and Cygwin
distributions.
Files
whohas uses various files in ~/.whohas to cache package lists for some distributions.
Name
whohas - find packages in various distributions' repositories
Options
--no-threads
Don't use multiple threads to query package lists (will be much slower)
--shallow
Limit to one call per server. Faster, but loses some information, typically package size and
release date.
--strict
List only those packages that have exactly pkgname as their name.
-dDist1[,Dist2[,Dist3etc.]]
Queries only for packages for the listed distributions. Recognised values for Dist1, Dist2, etc.
are "archlinux", "cygwin", "debian", "fedora", "fink", "freebsd", "gentoo", "mageia", "mandriva",
"macports", "netbsd", "openbsd", "opensuse", "slackware", "sourcemage", and "ubuntu".
pkgname
Package name to query for
See Also
See intro.txt or intro.html notes on using whohas.
Syntax
whohas [--no-threads] [--shallow] [--strict] [-dDist1[,Dist2[,Dist3etc.]]] pkgname