FAQ:Find Existing Packages of Software Applications
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| Question: How can I discover if one of my favorite software applications is already packaged for Conary and available for me to install? | ||
Answer: Use the conary repquery command, (which can be abbreviated as conary rq) to search the repositories specified by the installLabelPath directive in your Conary configuration file for the package name. For example, to search for the emulation software QEMU, use the following command:
[you@yourhost ~]$ conary rq qemu qemu=0.8.0-2-1
Note that the QEMU package is contained within the contrib repository. If you do not have the contrib repository listed in the installLabelPath of your Conary configuration file, the package will not be listed as in the example above; you will see a message similar to the following, instead:
qemu was not found on path conary.rpath.com@rpl:1
An alternative method to search for packages that is sure to see most public repositories is to use the Package Search capability of rBuilder Online. Visit the rBuilder Online website and use the search feature in the upper right section of the site to specify Package, then enter an application name into the I'm looking for a... text input field, and click the Search button.