pacsift
queries and filters packages from pacman databases with flexible criteria
TLDR
List all available packages
$ pacsift
Filter packages that satisfy a dependency$ pacsift --satisfies [package]
Search installed packages by name$ pacsift --local --name [pattern]
Find foreign (AUR/manually installed) packages$ pacsift --local --foreign
Find explicitly installed packages$ pacsift --local --reason explicit
Combine filters with exact matching$ pacsift --exact --repo [extra] --name [package]
SYNOPSIS
pacsift [options] [filters]
DESCRIPTION
pacsift queries and filters packages from pacman databases with flexible criteria. Part of the pacutils collection, it provides more powerful filtering than basic pacman queries.The tool can filter by various attributes: name patterns, repository, installation status, dependencies, groups, and more. Multiple filters can be combined to narrow down results.Output is a list of package names suitable for piping to other pacutils commands or pacman.
PARAMETERS
--satisfies _dep_
Filter packages that satisfy a dependency--repo _name_
Filter by repository--local
Search only installed packages--sync
Search only sync databases--name _pattern_
Filter by package name--group _name_
Filter by group membership--provides _pkg_
Filter packages that provide something--depends _pkg_
Filter packages that depend on something--exact
Match values exactly--regex
Treat values as extended case-insensitive regular expressions--invert
Return packages that do NOT match--any
Return the union rather than the intersection of matches--foreign
Show packages not found in sync databases (e.g., AUR packages)--native
Show packages found in sync databases--reason reason
Filter by install reason (explicit or depend)--null[=sep]
Set alternate separator for stdin values (default: NUL)
CAVEATS
Part of the pacutils package, not installed by default on Arch. Filter syntax differs from pacman's built-in search. For simple searches, pacman -Ss may be more convenient.
