1whohas(1)                                                            whohas(1)
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NAME

6       whohas - find packages in various distributions' repositories
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SYNTAX

9       whohas  [--no-threads]  [--shallow]  [--strict] [-d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3
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DESCRIPTION

13       whohas is a command line tool to query package  lists  from  the  Arch,
14       Debian,  Fedora,  Gentoo,  Mandriva,  openSUSE, Slackware, Source Mage,
15       Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, MacPorts and  Cygwin  distribu‐
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OPTIONS

19       --no-threads
20              Don't  use multiple threads to query package lists (will be much
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23       --shallow
24              Limit to one call per server. Faster, but  loses  some  informa‐
25              tion, typically package size and release date.
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27       --strict
28              List  only  those  packages  that  have exactly pkgname as their
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31       -d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]
32              Queries only for packages for the listed  distributions.  Recog‐
33              nised  values  for Dist1, Dist2, etc. are "archlinux", "cygwin",
34              "debian", "fedora",  "fink",  "freebsd",  "gentoo",  "mandriva",
35              "macports",   "netbsd",   "openbsd",   "opensuse",  "slackware",
36              "sourcemage", and "ubuntu".
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38       pkgname
39              Package name to query for
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FILES

42       whohas uses various files in ~/.whohas to cache package lists for  some
43       distributions.
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SEE ALSO

46       See intro.txt or intro.html notes on using whohas.
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AUTHORS

49       whohas is written and maintained by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>
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51       This   man  page  was  written  by  Jonathan  Wiltshire  <debian@jwilt‐
52       shire.org.uk> for the Debian project and adapted for a new  version  by
53       Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>
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57Jonathan Wiltshire                  0.29.1                           whohas(1)