eix

Utilities for searching local Gentoo packages. Update local package cache using eix-update. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eix.

• Search for a package:

eix query

• Search for installed packages:

eix --installed query

• Search in package descriptions:

eix --description "description"

• Search by package license:

eix --license license

• Exclude results from search:

eix --not --license license