Parrot isn’t including debian’s package list. There are plenty that aren’t available.
I was just wondering why this is, I expected parrot to be debian with some ricing/extra things ontop of it. Not “let’s not include even all of main in our package list.”
P.S. Whoever’s idea it was to limit title length to 40 characters aught to be slapped.
hi,
under the hood is a debian, that’s right.
but:
as parrot is trimmed to security and the programs run in a sandbox, we maintain our own repository.
Everyone is welcome to extend this! 
Show us example, please
┌─[root@evoc-laptop-parrot]─[/home/macarthur]
└──╼ #apt search gprename
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gprename
┌─[root@evoc-laptop-parrot]─[/home/macarthur]
└──╼ #apt search mediainfo
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
dvd+rw-tools/now 7.1-14 amd64 [installed,local]
DVD+-RW/R tools
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/mediainfo-gui
I had to install it from the website itself b/c debian had extra packages that weren’t in your repo. Also I hate discourse as randomly my cursor dissappears and it’s annoying as f***
Here is what i got. I am using Parrot 4.6 rolling
┌─[dmknght@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $apt search gprename
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
gprename/rolling,rolling 20140325-1 all
Complete batch renamer for Linux
┌─[dmknght@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $apt search mediainfo
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
caja-mediainfo/rolling,rolling 1.0.1-2 all
View media information from the Caja file properties tab
dvd+rw-tools/rolling,now 7.1-14+b1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
DVD+-RW/R tools
libmediainfo-dev/rolling 18.12-2 amd64
library reading metadata from media files -- headers
libmediainfo-doc/rolling,rolling 18.12-2 all
library for reading metadata from media files -- documentation
libmediainfo0v5/rolling,now 18.12-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
library for reading metadata from media files -- shared library
mediainfo/rolling 18.12-2+b1 amd64
command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files
mediainfo-gui/rolling 18.12-2+b1 amd64
graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files
Did you run apt update before apt install?
Not lately, I figured parrot-upgrade handles that whenever it pops up. Also where’s the option to stop pam from overwriting my udisks configuration file because it’s annoying to have to go and recopy my backup to the original file.
Well I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say I’m so sorry you had to actually take some personal initiative and do something for yourself. P.S. this distro isn’t focused on multimedia and doesn’t claim to be
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