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On Wednesday 06 February 2008 20:24, Xavier 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
w9ya@qrparci.net wrote: 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.
Well yaourt, which I recommended can do searches of what is available like this: yaourt cpp (for instance) And anything that matches will be offered, and you can select what you want installed by number. Further it can do the compilation of PKGBUILDs that have no matching binaries. <- That's was probably the reason I first suggested it to you. If you have not yet installed it Nigel, you REALLY ought to consider it. Very best regards; Bob Finch P.S... I also use the AUR web site to do searches too, but that's another story.
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.