Arch: pacman doesn't return any query results

[ramfree17]

hi,

 

any arch users ever experienced the scenario wherein pacman does not result any query information? it returns the list of installed packages when invoked with

 $ pacman -Q

(i think) but whenever i add some query options (like the one for whoever owns a file) then it returns with nothing and there is no error ($? is 0).

 

im using the default packages in 0.7 (Wombat).

 

ciao!

[phunni]

If you do a

pacman -Q <some-package>

it will return the version of the package you have installed. If you don't have it installed, then you'll get nothing at all.

 

Is this what you're experiencing?

[tyme]

if you're doing -Qo you have to give the full path to the file, i.e.:

[mark@einsiedler ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/xmms
/usr/bin/xmms is owned by xmms 1.2.10-3

[ramfree17]

phunni: that is exactly what i was experiencing but "pacman -Q | grep <packagename>" shows that it is installed.

 

tyme: yeah i tried that too. i began to notice this problem when i downloaded the k3b dependencies (kdebase, kde-libs, kde-common) from the extra repository and kdebase conflicted with kde-libs. this prompted me to check file package ownerships to see if i can force the installation . i know the man page said its not recommended but the installation of arson was unsuccessful.

 

btw, i did force it and k3b is a little loony in operation. i plan to sort it out this weekend. :)

 

ciao!