Portage on Gentoo how to view available software versions?
Solution 1
While I would recommend lkraav's solution, here is another way:
$ ls /usr/portage/app-portage/eix/
ChangeLog eix-0.25.5.ebuild eix-0.29.6.ebuild eix-0.30.1.ebuild
Manifest eix-0.29.3.ebuild eix-0.30.0.ebuild metadata.xml
this will of course only give you list of all ebuilds available for eix in the portage tree (without all the nice info which eix does provide). If you are using layman more ebuilds will be available in overlays (basically in other folders).
Solution 2
Another way would be to list available keywords with equery, this will also show the versions available.
$ [-] equery y pidgin
Keywords for net-im/pidgin:
| | u |
| a a a p s | n |
| l m r h i m m p s p | u s | r
| p d a m p a 6 i p c 3 a x | s l | e
| h 6 r 6 p 6 8 p p 6 9 s r 8 | e o | p
| a 4 m 4 a 4 k s c 4 0 h c 6 | d t | o
-------------+-----------------------------+-----+-------
2.10.9 | + + + o ~ + o o + + o o + + | o 0 | gentoo
[I]2.10.9-r1 | ~ + ~ o + ~ o o + ~ o o ~ + | o | gentoo
Solution 3
I would've expected emerge --search
to provide this functionality, alas it only seems to show latest version.
$ [-] emerge --search eix
Searching...
[ Results for search key : eix ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-portage/eix
Latest version available: 0.29.3
Latest version installed: 0.29.3
Size of files: 536 kB
Homepage: http://eix.berlios.de
Description: Search and query ebuilds, portage incl. local settings, ext. overlays, version changes, and more
License: GPL-2
So to answer your question: I've been using eix
for so long, I don't really remember what I did before.
$ [-] eix eix$ -c
[I] app-portage/eix
Available versions: 0.25.5{tbz2} 0.29.3{tbz2} ~0.29.6 ~0.30.0 ~0.30.1 {clang debug +dep doc nls optimization security sqlite strong-optimization strong-security swap-remote tools zsh-completion LINGUAS="de ru"}
Installed versions: 0.29.3{tbz2}(10:44:38 07.09.2013)(dep nls -clang -debug -doc -optimization -security -sqlite -strong-optimization -strong-security -swap-remote -tools -zsh-completion LINGUAS="-de -ru")
Homepage: http://eix.berlios.de
Description: Search and query ebuilds, portage incl. local settings, ext. overlays, version changes, and more
Solution 4
Yet another way and the one I use 90% of the time:
equery list -po [package_name]
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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jckta over 1 year
I would like to install program foo using
emerge
on a Gentoo system; so I simply useemerge foo
to install and portage selects the most current version of that software that's in its repository. If I know the version number and the naming covnention, I can doemerge =foo.1.2
and useeselect
to chose what the currently inforce package is out of the installed ones, if the package supports it.But what if I don't know the version number or naming convention and just want a list of what's versions of foo are available to me? I don't see an emerge option that does this and snooping around under
/usr/portage
doesn't yield me anything.Bonus: Is there anyway to find what locations
emerge
polls to determine what packages are available? For example, many of the ebuilds on my systems are in nonstandard locations, butemerge
finds them anyway, so I'm attempting to determine howemerge
builds it's list of available software versions.-
Admin almost 10 yearsMaybe
emerge --info =foo*
or with --search instead or something like that from the atom syntax? -
eyoung100 over 9 yearsYou need to read up on
man portage
Look for thePORTDIR
Variable. The location of your Portage Tree is determined by the setting of that variable As a shortcut tryls ${PORTDIR}
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lkraav almost 9 years@inetplumber care to select an answer?
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eyoung100 over 9 yearsI absolutely will second
eix
as the Goto Tool. +1 -
lkraav over 9 yearsls -1 perhaps gives a better one-column view for this.
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jckta almost 9 yearsI like this method in combination with knowing the system's PORTDIR locations.
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lkraav over 7 yearsThis method doesn't provide information on what's installed, which binary packages are built, etc
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JointEffort over 2 yearsThis is by far the simplest solution. Did exactly what I needed when the default version of
socat
was removed from http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/