Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:13, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, I have made friends with pacman in most areas, but one are I still don't know is How to I find the uninstalled package that will provide xxx? pacman -Ss must just search package names and not the contents. I need to find html2ps for hylafax. Can pacman do this, or do I search abs/aur for this type of request? pkgfile from pkgtools does this.
Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?
On 03/08/2010 06:15 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:13, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, I have made friends with pacman in most areas, but one are I still don't know is How to I find the uninstalled package that will provide xxx? pacman -Ss must just search package names and not the contents. I need to find html2ps for hylafax. Can pacman do this, or do I search abs/aur for this type of request? pkgfile from pkgtools does this. Thank you Daenyth! I'll check it out. Before I got your message, I was able to find it in AUR with a search. If pkgfile is a cli tool, it's just what I'm looking for. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?
On 03/08/10 at 08:36pm, David C. Rankin wrote: On 03/08/2010 06:15 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:13, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, I have made friends with pacman in most areas, but one are I still don't know is How to I find the uninstalled package that will provide xxx? pacman -Ss must just search package names and not the contents. I need to find html2ps for hylafax. Can pacman do this, or do I search abs/aur for this type of request? pkgfile from pkgtools does this. Thank you Daenyth! I'll check it out. Before I got your message, I was able to find it in AUR with a search. If pkgfile is a cli tool, it's just what I'm looking for. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com It is a cli tool, and it's wonderfully helpful. :P --
Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 21:40, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) ghost1...@archlinux.us wrote: On 03/08/10 at 08:36pm, David C. Rankin wrote: I'll check it out. Before I got your message, I was able to find it in AUR with a search. If pkgfile is a cli tool, it's just what I'm looking for. It is a cli tool, and it's wonderfully helpful. :P -- One thing it won't do is AUR though; there's no list of files (nor is such a thing at all possible)
