NAME

       whohas - find packages in various distributions' repositories

SYNTAX

       whohas [--no-threads] [--shallow] [--strict] [-d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]] pkgname

DESCRIPTION

       whohas  is  a  command  line tool to query package lists from the Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva,
       openSUSE,  Slackware,  Source  Mage,  Ubuntu,  FreeBSD,  NetBSD,  OpenBSD,  Fink,  MacPorts  and   Cygwin
       distributions.

OPTIONS

       --no-threads
              Don't use multiple threads to query package lists (will be much slower)

       --shallow
              Limit  to  one  call  per  server.  Faster, but loses some information, typically package size and
              release date.

       --strict
              List only those packages that have exactly pkgname as their name.

       -d Dist1[,Dist2[,Dist3 etc.]]
              Queries only for packages for the listed distributions. Recognised values for Dist1,  Dist2,  etc.
              are   "archlinux",   "cygwin",   "debian",  "fedora",  "fink",  "freebsd",  "gentoo",  "mandriva",
              "macports", "netbsd", "openbsd", "opensuse", "slackware", "sourcemage", and "ubuntu".

       pkgname
              Package name to query for

FILES

       whohas uses various files in ~/.whohas to cache package lists for some distributions.

SEE ALSO

       See intro.txt or intro.html notes on using whohas.

AUTHORS

       whohas is written and maintained by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>

       This man page was written by Jonathan Wiltshire <debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> for  the  Debian  project  and
       adapted for a new version by Philipp Wesche <phi1ipp@yahoo.com>