Scout

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Introduction

Scout is a command line utility which allows the users to search in packages using indexes of various attributes. Each functionality has its own module. It is accompanied by small tool which prints useful messages about packages when command is not found in the shell.

Installation

Scout is available in openSUSE BuildService in home:prusnak:scout project. If you would like to install and test it, follow these three steps:

• add the following repository (change openSUSE_11.0 to your distribution if necessary)

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/prusnak:/scout/openSUSE_11.0 scout

• if you plan to install indexes also add next repository:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/prusnak:/scout/data scout-data

• install scout

zypper in scout

• if you have added index repository, install any of the index data you find attractive (see below for the whole list of indexes):

zypper in scout-bin-suse110
zypper in scout-java-suse110

Command-not-Found

If you'd like to try command-not-found feature (and you are not using openSUSE 11.1), follow these steps:

• install command-not-found

zypper in command-not-found

(zypper should automatically install dependencies like scout, patched bash and python-satsolver for 11.0+)

or use One Click Install for 11.0 which adds needed repository

• add following lines to /etc/bash.bashrc.local:

if [ -f /etc/bash_command_not_found ]; then
    . /etc/bash_command_not_found
fi

• or if you are using zsh:

if [ -f /etc/zh_command_not_found ]; then
    . /etc/zsh_command_not_found
fi

Upcoming openSUSE 11.1 will contain these feature working out of the box!

Videos

• scout demonstration video by Pavol Rusnak
• java wrapper using scout by Michal Vyskocil

Supported Modules and Repositories

Module-repository matrix and index list

• yes - available (right after installing scout, no other packages needed)
• index - available after installing index package scout-module-repository
• todo - planned, but not yet available/implemented
• no - not available (either inapplicable or has a very little importance)

Tasks / Future plans

• ruby indexes
• perl indexes
• pkgconfig indexes

• binaries indexes - done
• java indexes - done
• autoconf indexes - done
• bash completion - done
• documentation + man page - done
• python indexes - done
• header indexes - done
• support for ZYPP repositories in bin module - done

References

• Git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/scout.git
• BuildService project: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:prusnak:scout
• BuildService repositories: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/prusnak:/scout/