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NAME¶
pin - Package InformatioN
SYNOPSIS¶
pin [OPTION] [PACKAGENAME/FILE]
DESCRIPTION¶
Pin searches the installed packages (rpm -qi, -ql) and/or the ARCHIVES.gz file for the desired information. It shows also README, README.SuSE, FAQ, when available.
It is also possible to search through different version with the -v option, if you have the ARCHIVES.gz from it. You have to copy ARCHIVES.gz to /var/lib/pin/ for this option, don`t forget to name it, e.g. 7.1-ppc, 7.2-i386.
- pin
- open a dialog box and wait for searchstring
- pin <name>
- searches for a package <name>
- pin -f <name>
- greping also if package was found
- pin -v <version> <name>
- searches through another version, not the default
AUTHOR¶
Written by Martin Lasarsch
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs to <mlasars@suse.de>
CREDITS¶
thanks to henne <scripts@hennevogel.de> for hosting & advertising and Stefan Schmidt for better sorting. Christian Boltz for testing, fixes and recommendations.
COPYRIGHT¶
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
September 2001 | pin |