On Wednesday 06 February 2008 20:24, Xavier wrote: > w9ya@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hey Nigel and the gang; > > > > Well, I *think* that unless someone wants to re-write and maintain > > jacman, you would be best advised to not use it. > > > > I would suggest 'yaourt' as a replacement. It works very nicely here for > > what I need out of such a program, and it is being actively maintained as > > pacman evolves. > > > > Very best regards; > > > > Bob Finch > > > > P.S.. Jacman is a great idea, so *IF* someone brings it up to date, I am > > sure it would be VERY popular. > > Apparently, its developer was interested in updating it, but it was > supposed to come "any day now", and that was 6 months ago : > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=272848#p272848 > > There has been 2 major pacman upgrades since last jacman release in Dec > 2006 (3.0 and 3.1) :p > So probably help is welcome indeed. As the OP, I'm impressed by the replies. I originally posted the Q to the forum, with the reply saying "upgrade jacman". That was not a lot of use, to say the least. I use apt, and synaptic (the gui for apt) on fedora, and debian, and synaptic works ok. I admit that mostly I use the CLI, but just to see which packages are available I use synaptic, and sometimes install packages with it. I prefer to install from the CLI because I can save the install history, and can see what was done, and when. Jacman appears to work ok when uninstalling packages. it just seems to have a problem with installing packages. There doesn't appear to be much to do to get it working, but as I'm not a programmer, perhaps it's not so easy. Question again: Should I send a bug report to the jacman maintainer? Nigel.
