PACMENU Started Jan 26, 2005 by: Tigger Last upgrade Apr 12, 2005, by Rasat A script using bash/dialog/awk/grep for installing,removing, refreshing, and updating the system. All it does is make a menu out of the the listing functions from pacman and gives you a scrollable menu to pick the packages you want to either install or remove. UPDATES: June 17, 2005 (ver. 2.2.1) - Rasat - Bug fixing og category template and upgrade of pkg. versions. May 19, 2005 (ver. 2.2) - Rasat - Package rollback feature is included. - Replaced skoal's "Pacake Dependency Tree" with Spider.007's "pacmanDeps" - recursive package dependency viewer http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=10339 - Few bug fixes. Apr 12, 2005 (ver. 2.1.1) - Rasat - Updating installed packages in DB after each new install or removed package(s). Apr 11, 2005 (ver. 2.1) - Rasat - Doesn't require to refresh DB except when new pkgs in repos. - Sql file for inserting package description. - Moved database (pacmenu.db) to /var/lib/pacmenu/ - Includes "Pacakge Dependency Tree" (/usr/sbin/deptree), by skoal http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=10283 Apr 5, 2005 (ver. 2.0) - Rasat - Replaced flat files with sqlite database. - Added package descriptions. - New option: "View new in Arch repos". - Information boxes what's happening. - Fixed few minor bugs. Feb 02, 2005 (ver. 1.4) - Tigger - Removed automatic fetching of the category template file and provided an option to update it on the main menu. - Better parsing of the packages.txt file thanks to apeiro's little suggestion and code snippet he gave me - Reorganized the function order in the file - no visible changes to the user, just easier to follow the code. Feb 01, 2005 (ver. 1.3) - Tigger - Added some information to let the user know that the packages.txt file is being retrieved and manipulated for later use. - Changed the initial menu to have the basics only. - Changed all the package selection menus to checklist so multiple packages or groups can be selected for install or removal. Feb 01, 2005 (ver 1.2) - Tigger - CINSTALL and CREMOVE have been added. This means you can install and remove not only by alphabetical order or by group packages, but also by categories like the install CD is setup. Jan 30, 2005 (ver. 1.1) - Tigger - Added abs refresh Jan 28, 2005 (ver. 1.0) - Tigger - Install Individual Packages - Install Group packages - like "kde" or "gnome" - Remove Individual Packages - Remove Group Packages - Refresh the Database - Refresh and Update the system