Fetches package information from the repositories of various *nix distributions, including Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu.
This plugin uses the following APIs:
- For Debian and Ubuntu, Debian's madison.php (used by the
vlistcommand) - For Arch Linux and its AUR, AurJson and the Arch Linux Web Interface
- For Fedora, the Product Definition Center API: https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/
Everything else is parsed as HTML using the Beautiful Soup 4 library.
Package information
Synopsis: pkg <distro/release name> <package name> [--depends] [--source]
The pkg command fetches package information from distribution sources, with additional support for showing source package info (via --source) and dependencies (--depends) for some OSes.
This command supports Arch Linux (distro names arch/archlinux and aur/archaur), Debian (using release codenames such as sid, unstable, stretch, stable), FreeBSD (distro name freebsd), Linux Mint (release codenames such as sonya or betsy), and Ubuntu (release codenames such as bionic or xenial).
This command replaces the archlinux, archaur, freebsd, and linuxmint commands from earlier versions of PkgInfo.
<GLolol> `pkg stretch nginx
<Atlas> Package: nginx (1.10.3-1+deb9u1) in stretch - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server <https://packages.debian.org/stretch/nginx>
<GLolol> `pkg stretch bash --source
<Atlas> Package: bash (4.4-5) in stretch - Built packages: bash, bash-builtins, bash-doc, and bash-static <https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/bash>
<GLolol> `pkg arch chromium
<Atlas> Package: chromium (66.0.3359.139) in extra - A web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/chromium>
<GLolol> `pkg archaur chromium-beta
<Atlas> Package: chromium-beta (64.0.3282.99-1) in Arch Linux AUR - A web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security (beta channel) [Popularity: 0; Votes: 0] <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-beta/>
<GLolol> `pkg freebsd python36
<Atlas> Package: python36 (3.6.5) in FreeBSD Ports - Interpreted object-oriented programming language <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?stype=name&query=python36>
<GLolol> `pkg fedora gnome-shell
<Atlas> Package: gnome-shell (3.29.1) in Fedora - no description available <https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/gnome-shell>
Viewing (build-)dependencies
<GLolol> `pkg sid bash --source --depends
<Atlas> Package bash dependencies: adep: autoconf, adep: autotools-dev, adep: bison, adep: libncurses5-dev, adep: texinfo, adep: texi2html, adep: debhelper (>= 5), adep: locales, adep: gettext, adep: sharutils, adep: time, adep: xz-utils, adep: dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1), idep: texlive-latex-base, idep: ghostscript, idep: (1 more message)
<GLolol> `pkg sid bash --depends
<Atlas> Package bash dependencies: dep: dash (>= 0.5.5.1-2.2), dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.17-91) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386], dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.15) [hurd-i386], dep: libc6 (>= 2.15) [not alpha, arm64, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, ppc64el, sh4, x32], dep: libc6 (>= 2.16) [x32], dep: libc6 (>= 2.17) [arm64, ppc64el], dep: libc6 (>= 2.19) [mips, (1 more message)
Package search
Synopsis: pkgsearch <distro> <search query>
The pkgsearch command provides package searches on various distros. As of writing, supports all distros that pkg does except for Fedora.
<GLolol> `pkgsearch arch firefox
<Atlas> Found 207 results: arch-firefox-search, bluegriffon, firefox, firefox-adblock-plus, firefox-developer-edition, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ach, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-af, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-an, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ar, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-as, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ast, firefox-developer-edition-i18n-az, firefox-developer- (14 more messages)
<GLolol> `pkgsearch debian geany-plugin
<Atlas> Found 86 results: geany-plugin-addons, geany-plugin-addons-dbgsym, geany-plugin-autoclose, geany-plugin-autoclose-dbgsym, geany-plugin-automark, geany-plugin-automark-dbgsym, geany-plugin-codenav, geany-plugin-codenav-dbgsym, geany-plugin-commander, geany-plugin-commander-dbgsym, geany-plugin-ctags, geany-plugin-ctags-dbgsym, geany-plugin-debugger, geany-plugin-defineformat, (6 more messages)
<GLolol> `pkgsearch ubuntu unity-scope
<Atlas> Found 54 results: libunity-scopes-cli, libunity-scopes-dev, libunity-scopes-doc, libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop, libunity-scopes-json-def-phone, libunity-scopes-qt-dev, libunity-scopes-qt-doc, libunity-scopes-qt0.2, libunity-scopes1, libunity-scopes1.0, unity-scope-audacious, unity-scope-calculator, unity-scope-chromiumbookmarks, unity-scope-clementine, unity-scope-click, (3 more messages)
Version listing (Debian and Ubuntu)
Synopsis:: vlist <distribution> <package name> [--reverse]
<GLolol> `vlist debian variety
<Atlas> Found 4 results: jessie-backports (0.6.3-5~bpo8+1 [source, all]), stretch (0.6.3-5 [source, all]), buster (0.6.7-1 [source, all]), and sid (0.6.7-1 [source, all]); View more at: <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=variety>
<GLolol> `vlist ubuntu libreoffice --reverse
<atlas> Found 55 results: cosmic/universe (1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 [amd64, i386]), cosmic (1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 [source]), bionic/universe (1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 [amd64, i386]), bionic (1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 [source]), artful-updates/universe (1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 [amd64, i386]), artful-updates (1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 [source]), artful-security/universe (1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5 [amd64, i386]), artful-security (7 more messages)
CentOS packages
Synopsis: centos <release> [<repository> <package name>] [--arch <arch>] [--startswith|--exact]
This lookup command is provided as a separate command due to limited package searching abilities through the CentOS website.
<GLolol> `centos 7 os zsh
<Atlas> Available RPMs: zsh-5.0.2-7.el7.x86_64.rpm and zsh-html-5.0.2-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
<GLolol> `centos 7 os python
<Atlas> Available RPMs: MySQL-python-1.2.3-11.el7.x86_64.rpm, OpenIPMI-python-2.0.19-11.el7.x86_64.rpm, abrt-addon-python-2.1.11-19.el7.centos.0.3.x86_64.rpm, abrt-python-2.1.11-19.el7.centos.0.3.x86_64.rpm, abrt-python-doc-2.1.11-19.el7.centos.0.3.noarch.rpm, antlr-python-2.7.7-30.el7.noarch.rpm, at-spi-python-1.32.0-12.el7.x86_64.rpm, audit-libs-python-2.4.1-5.el7.x86_64.rpm, (25 more messages)