Pisi Linux Commandline usage

About the Document This document is intended to provide an overview of pisi usage on the command line (pisi-cli).

Pisi CLI Operations Repository Operations Adding Repositories add-repo command with repo-name and repo-address parameters is used in order to add repositories.

Pisi CLI Operations

pisi add-repo repo-address http://repo.address.com/repo/directory/pisi-index.xml

• Local addresses i.e. /home/example/pisi/repo/pisi-index.xml

• Web addresses i.e. http://example.com/pisi/repo/pisi-index.xml

Note: Default name for repository index file is pisi-index.xml, but compressing it as pisi-index.xml.bz2 can also be used in order to prevent high bandwidth usage.

Removing Repositories remove-repo command with repo-name parameter is used in order to remove repositories.

pisi remove-repo repo-name

Listing Repositories list-repo command is used in order to list which repositories are available.

pisi list-repo

Updating Repositories update-repo command is used in order to update all available repositories.

pisi update-repo

One or more repo-name parameters can be used in order to update proper repositories.

pisi update-repo repo-name

Listing Components list-components command is used in order to list all components in available repositories.

pisi list-components

One or more repo-name parameters can be used in order to list components in proper repositories.

pisi list-components repo-name

Adding Repositories Creating Repository Index index command in the repo directory is used in order to create the repository index (pisi-index.xml).

pisi index

Package Operations Installing Packages install command with package-name parameter is used in order to install packages. Multiple packages can be installed by separating the package names by a space.

pisi install package-name

pisi install package-name1 package-name2

Installing just one package without installing all the upgradable packages available

pisi it package-name –ignore-safety

Removing packages remove command with package-name parameter is used in order to remove packages. Multiple packages can be removed by separating the package names by a space.

pisi remove package-name

pisi remove package-name1 package-name2

Upgrading Packages upgrade command with package-name parameter is used in order to upgraded packages. Multiple packages can be upgraded by separating the package names by a space.

pisi upgrade package-name

pisi upgrade package-name1 package-name2

All available packages can be upgraded by using upgrade command without any parameters.

pisi upgrade

Excluding Packages from upgrade To update all the updatable packages exceptCreating Repository Index firefox : pisi upgrade -x firefox

Similarly, if you don't want to update the packages that are part of the desktop.kde system component, do :

pisi upgrade -x desktop.kde

Updating just one package without updating the others

pisi upgrade package-name –ignore-safety

Getting Package Information info command with package-name parameter is used in order to get information about a package. Getting information for multiple packages can be achieved by separating the packages names by a space.

pisi info package-name

pisi info package-name1 package-name2

Building Packages from Source build command with package-address parameter is used in order to build packages from source.

pisi build /home/example/pisi/repo/pisi-index.xml

Building Packages from Source Repository emerge command with package-name parameter is used in order to build a package and all dependencies from the source repository.

pisi emerge package-name

Listing Packages list-available command with repo-name parameter is used in order to list all packages in the proper repository

pisi list-available repo-name

list-available command is used in order to list all packages in the all repositories.

pisi list-available

Listing Upgrades list-upgrades command is used in order to list upgrades in all repositories.

pisi list-upgrades

Excluding Packages from upgrade list-upgrades command with repo-name parameter is used in order to list upgrades in a proper repository.

pisi list-upgrades repo-name

Listing Installed Packages list-installed command is used in order to list installed packages.

pisi list-installed

list-installed command with repo-name parameter is used in order to list installed packages from a proper repository

pisi list-installed repo-name

Listing Pending Packages list-pending command is used for listing pending package operations.

pisi list-pending

Listing Source Packages list-sources command is used for listing available source packages Configuring Pending Packages configure-pending command is be used in order to configure packages which are not already configured by COMAR

pisi configure-pending

Searching Packages pisi search search-key1 search-key2

Checking Packages check command with package-name parameter is used for checking if the package is installed correctly.

pisi check package-name

Other Operations Rebuilding PiSi Database rebuild-db command is used in order to rebuild pisi package database.

pisi rebuild-db

Deleting Files in Cache delete-cache command is used in order to delete files( packages, source codes etc.) stored in cache.

pisi delete-cache

Searching Files search-file command with file-name parameter is used in order to find which package does a file belong to.

pisi search-file /path/file

Getting Package Relations graph command with package-name parameter is used for getting package relations via graphviz.

pisi graph package-name

Removing Locks clean command is used in order to delete outdated locks.

pisi clean

Displaying history history command displays the history of installations/deinstallations/updates of packages.

pisi history

Getting Help help command is used in order to get help about pisi-cli.

pisi help

help command with command-name parameter can be used for getting help about a specific command.

pisi help command-name