Package Versions

List packages and versions matching a string. etcat and qpkg are superceded by equery as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.

• List installed packages: equery list STRING

• List packages from portage tree: equery list -p STRING

• Example:

  $ equery list -p mozilla<br />
  Searching for package 'mozilla' in all categories among:<br />
  * installed packages<br />
    * Portage tree (/usr/portage)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.2 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.3 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.3-r1 (0)<br />
    [I--] [M~] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-0.4 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-0.4 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-0.5 (0)<br />
    [I--] [  ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.8 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.6-r7 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.6.1 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.7-r1 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.7 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-www/mozilla-firebird-0.7-r2 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-www/mozilla-1.5 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [M~] net-www/mozilla-1.4-r4 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-1.5-r1 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-1.4.1 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-1.6 (0)<br />
    [-P-] [  ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin-0.8 (0)<br />
  $ _
  

NOTE: For systems with <portage-2.0.50 and <gentoolkit-0.2 use: etcat versions STRING