INSTALLCHECK(1)

💅 INSTALLCHECK(1) — the libsolv girlie's guide to "wait, can I actually install this??"

okay bestie, so you know that feeling when you're about to install a package and the dependency gods are like "no ❤️"? yeah. that's what installcheck is here to save you from. it lives in the libsolv universe and it's lowkey one of the most useful little tools ever. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

installcheck — find out which packages cannot be installed 🫶

like literally, it tells you which ones are giving "broken dependency" energy before you find out the hard way. iconic behaviour tbh.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

installcheck ARCH REPO1 REPO2... --nocheck NREPO1 NREPO2...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: installcheck checks if all the packages in REPO1...REPON are installable. and a package counts as installable if there's a set of packages from the repositories that satisfies its dependencies. that's the whole definition. that's the bar. slay.

then there's the plot twist: the repositories that come after the --nocheck option are only used for dependency resolving — the tool does not check whether the packages inside those ones are installable. so they're like the backup dancers 💃, they show up and help the main act, but nobody's grading them.

heads up bestie: a Repository can be a solv file, a rpmmd primary.xml.gz file, a SUSE packages or packages.gz file, or a Debian Packages or Packages.gz file. so many flavours, all valid, we love a versatile queen. 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de> — the actual legend behind this whole thing. thank you for your service fr fr 💖

and that's the tea 🍓 — brought to you by libsolv, dated 09/14/2018, page INSTALLCHECK(1). go check those packages, bestie, and may all your dependencies resolve on the first try. periodt. 💅✨