I know that I can define wanted package version in pacman
like shown in its manual pacman -S "bash>=3.2"
. But how do I know what versions are available?
I also know that pacman
is creating copy of mirrors upon syncing in .db files in /var/lib/pacman/sync/
, but those files are not human-readable.
And what if I want to install some version virtualbox
for example, that I hope is in mirrors somewhere, that wouldn't require newer version of linux
(set as IgnorePkg
in pacman.conf
) than I have installed (because of nvidia
drivers)? How do I know what version that is and if it is available?
pacman -Si package_name
enough?