eix is a tool for theGentoo Linuxportage system. It uses indexing to allow quick searches through the package tree.Some reasons for using eix:

• Fast indexing and searching
• Highly configurable output-format (with its own "language")
• Provides more information than most other search utilities (e.g. shows every available version, USE flags of available and emerged versions, ...)
• Shows stability/mask status of versions and how your local settings change it
• Helps you to manage your local /etc/portage/package.* settings in several ways (e.g. by finding "obsolete" entries by various criteria)
• Can import eix-files from other systems, e.g. to get a catalogue of overlays
• Cli with logical AND/OR (and braces), multiple matching algorithms (i.e. fuzzy search using levenshtein distance) and more

eix is in the portage tree, so you can simply install it with

emerge app-portage/eix

The most current version of eix is always available as "HEAD" in the git master branch.To get this version, emerge dev-vcs/git and then use the command

git clone git://github.com/vaeth/eix

For bugreports, please use the GitHub or the Gentoo bug system.If you want to reach the current maintainer, please use email.

Best regards .. your code monkeys :)

• emerge -s|-S
• qsearch (app-portage/portage-utils)
• esearch (app-portage/esearch)