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  (and  linuxpackages.net),  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>