On Wednesday 06 February 2008 20:24, Xavier wrote:
w9ya@qrparci.net wrote:
Hey Nigel and the gang;
Well, I *think* that unless someone wants to re-write and maintain jacman, you would be best advised to not use it.
I would suggest 'yaourt' as a replacement. It works very nicely here for what I need out of such a program, and it is being actively maintained as pacman evolves.
Very best regards;
Bob Finch
P.S.. Jacman is a great idea, so *IF* someone brings it up to date, I am sure it would be VERY popular.
Apparently, its developer was interested in updating it, but it was supposed to come "any day now", and that was 6 months ago : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=272848#p272848
There has been 2 major pacman upgrades since last jacman release in Dec 2006 (3.0 and 3.1) :p So probably help is welcome indeed.
As the OP, I'm impressed by the replies. I originally posted the Q to the forum, with the reply saying "upgrade jacman". That was not a lot of use, to say the least. I use apt, and synaptic (the gui for apt) on fedora, and debian, and synaptic works ok. I admit that mostly I use the CLI, but just to see which packages are available I use synaptic, and sometimes install packages with it. I prefer to install from the CLI because I can save the install history, and can see what was done, and when. Jacman appears to work ok when uninstalling packages. it just seems to have a problem with installing packages. There doesn't appear to be much to do to get it working, but as I'm not a programmer, perhaps it's not so easy. Question again: Should I send a bug report to the jacman maintainer? Nigel.