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whohas(1) whohas(1) NAME
whohas - find packages in various distributions' repositories SYNTAX
whohas [--no-threads] [--shallow] [--strict] [-d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]] pkgname DESCRIPTION
whohas is a command line tool to query package lists from the Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware (and linuxpack- ages.net), Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, MacPorts and Cygwin distributions. 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. -d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]] Queries only for packages for the listed distributions. Recognised values for Dist1, Dist2, etc. are "archlinux", "cygwin", "debian", "fedora", "fink", "freebsd", "gentoo", "mandriva", "macports", "netbsd", "openbsd", "opensuse", "slackware", "sourcemage", and "ubuntu". pkgname Package name to query for FILES
whohas uses various files in ~/.whohas to cache package lists for some distributions. SEE ALSO
See intro.txt or intro.html notes on using whohas. AUTHORS
whohas is written and maintained by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com> This man page was written by Jonathan Wiltshire <debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> for the Debian project and adapted for a new version by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com> Jonathan Wiltshire 0.29 whohas(1)
