Dpkg command used in Ubuntu for package management have a very ugly output,
especially in comparison to Arch's pacman or Gentoo's emerge. So I want to
write a little script to beautify its output,like this:
currently, I only finished a few commands,there is still a lot work to do. Any suggestion and feedback will be welcome. Email : yanhangyhy@gmail.com.
This script use some system tools :
grepawkapt-cachedpkg(from Debian)dpkg-query(from Debian)
just download the script :
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hangyan/dpkg-pacman/master/pacman.sh
and put somewhere you think appropriate and chmod a+x pacman.sh.
Search packages.
currently only support search one package at a time。
Show installed packages's files.
The output is not clear as tree,but is better than the origin
show package's dependencies and reverse depends.
origin output of apt-cache showpkg htop :
the new one of pacman.sh deps htop :
show package's infomation (apt-cache show pkgname) :
