Bug 464117

Summary:	Discovery search missing some packages
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	azurit3
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.26.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description azurit3 2023-01-10 20:57:41 UTC

There are some packages that Discover search will not find. Can only be installed by command line.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. search, for example, arch package "perl-http-date"

OBSERVED RESULT
The package not found.

EXPECTED RESULT
The package exists and can be installed by command line, so it should be shown.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-01-11 19:08:05 UTC

Discover isn't a graphical package manager; it find apps, not packages. So this is the intended design I'm afraid. If you want to install non-UI library packages, Discover isn't designed to support that use case, and you should use package manager software--either CLI or GUI.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-01-11 19:09:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 333438 ***