equery

equery is a collection of modules for querying the state of Gentoo packages, files and USE flags.

Documentation

• man 1 'equery'

• Equery [EN] @ Gentoo Wiki
• Gentoolkit [EN] @ Gentoo Wiki

Syntax

equery [GLOBAL-PARAMETER ...] SUBCOMMAND [PARAMETER ...]

Subcommands & Parameters

Global parameters

The following parameters can be used with the subcommands below:

-C, --no-color

Do not colorize output.

-q, --quiet

Be less verbose where possible. In some modules, this option can increase the output speed.

list [PARAMETER] PACKAGE

List installed versions of PACKAGE or all packages matching the query pattern.

-d, --duplicates

List only packages with more than one version installed.

uses [PARAMETER] PACKAGE

Display USE flag statuses and descriptions for a given PACKAGE.

-a, --all

Display all package versions. Without this option, equery will choose the best available version.

Examples

Get all USE from all installed packages

for pkg in $(equery --quiet list '*'); do
   equery uses "${pkg}"
done

list

List all installed packages

equery list '*'

List all packages categories which packages are installed from

equery --quiet list '*' | sed 's|/..*$||' | sort --unique

List all duplicates

equery list --duplicates '*'

uses

The usage of USE flags for OpenSSH

equery uses 'openssh'