On 2023/12/03 14:38:04 -0600, "Jay F. Shachter" <j...@m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:
> How does one find out that, e.g., the package that provides pip is
> py3-pip? I will respect an answer along the lines of "read the
> fabulous manual", but in that case, please tell me which fabulous
> manual page I should read.
>
> Also -- and this may also be a matter of locating and reading the
> appropriate fabulous manual page -- I clearly do not understand how
> the asterisk character works with the pkg_add command. After failing
> to install pip, pip3 or py310-pip, I tried the command
>
> pkg_add -v \*pip\*
>
> and that also failed. Is there a way (other than by perusing, with a
> browser, a site where the packages reside) to find the package names
> that contain a given substring?
`pkg_info -Q pip' was already mentioned in the list, but another way is
using pkglocate (from the pkglocatedb package) to find which package
install an executable named "pip":
$ pkglocate bin/pip
...
pypy-7.3.1p7:lang/pypy:/usr/local/pypy/bin/pip
pypy-7.3.1p7:lang/pypy:/usr/local/pypy/bin/pip2
pypy-7.3.1p7:lang/pypy:/usr/local/pypy/bin/pip2.7
python-3.11.6p0:lang/python/3.11,-main:/usr/local/bin/pip3.11
python-3.9.18p0:lang/python/3.9,-main:/usr/local/bin/pip3.9
(the format is "package name:pkgpath:matching file" and unless you work
with the ports tree the pkgpath is mostly useless.)
as you can see, it finds both lang/pypy that provides a "pip" executable
in a non-standard directory, and also python3.11 and python3.9 providing
pip3.11 and pip3.9 respectively.
