From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PDLKW-0005lG-Fi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:11:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F7BDE08CD for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AD6E07BC for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so7007778vws.40 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:37:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RAk2C+UMb2xe0nl2lRx79CXBiA4JDvAz8v7pg7OLDHI=; b=GdEZlY4epGXNMuA1cELr1tLsYEIjH+sbttnYjcWt4PC9Ofit1vCPNtG+u83mnaC5pp czC65pEufiWmA4NwUb489tENxKBjXqNOH+soaZiYX4bkK+IxTGMIf73QWXe5VDrROO9x rPVAypsMSi2eC//HcSldyv+doGveDC6fMU6is= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nTgyiGsGXTtu07fJP9RQnP5oLx3Zy7M4BDshKG7PJbDTrnsjnYi9zx3ozAFQlfkRyz RG3y2B9TKltMiJhknT6nJ6MZvo2gmboLPq1G/zlu8NZgEUU5/ekFyt45jnTa6d3oE0WE uveiFwXG82RkAzjHDCe9OfaF9jz5qSyIyCkZI= Received: by 10.224.173.133 with SMTP id p5mr9383931qaz.249.1288719475693; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-107-183.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.107.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s34sm6172556qcp.8.2010.11.02.10.37.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CD04C70.3070003@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:37:52 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101028 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a96467de-216f-4a65-89e7-162cce3857b3 X-Archives-Hash: dba78ca386e32a1c08fb20aea64bf34d Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not > currently installed in the system? > For example: > $ equery belongs zzdir > [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ] > dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.59-r1 (/usr/bin/zzdir) > > $ eix -I zziplib > [I] dev-libs/zziplib > Available versions: 0.13.58-r1 0.13.59-r1 {doc sdl static-libs test} > Installed versions: 0.13.59-r1(09:22:31 10/30/10)(sdl -doc > -static-libs -test) > Homepage: http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/ > Description: Lightweight library used to easily extract > data from files archived in a single zip file > > > Here zziplib is installed. > I would like equery return the same output when zziplib is not installed. > > Is it possible? > > Regards, > Kfir Well, this is not something you install but you can use this site to look for files that some unknown package provides. http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 Just type in the name and see what package it shows providing that file. If you can, install app-portage/pfl and you can help build the list of files as well. I run mine every few weeks or when I install something new. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)