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] [-d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]] pkgname
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DESCRIPTION

12       whohas  is  a  command  line tool to query package lists from the Arch,
13       Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware  (and  linuxpack‐
14       ages.net),  Source  Mage,  Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, Mac‐
15       Ports and Cygwin distributions.
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OPTIONS

18       --no-threads
19              Don't use multiple threads to query package lists (will be  much
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22       --shallow
23              Limit  to  one  call per server. Faster, but loses some informa‐
24              tion, typically package size and release date.
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26       -d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]
27              Queries only for packages for the listed  distributions.  Recog‐
28              nised  values  for Dist1, Dist2, etc. are "archlinux", "cygwin",
29              "debian", "fedora",  "fink",  "freebsd",  "gentoo",  "mandriva",
30              "macports",   "netbsd",   "openbsd",   "opensuse",  "slackware",
31              "sourcemage", and "ubuntu".
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33       pkgname
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FILES

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

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

44       whohas is written and maintained by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>
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46       This   man  page  was  written  by  Jonathan  Wiltshire  <debian@jwilt‐
47       shire.org.uk> for the Debian project and adapted for a new  version  by
48       Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>
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52Jonathan Wiltshire                   0.23                            whohas(1)
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