First place to look for packages for your favorite suse 10 is the buildservice. There are several search front-ends for it: here or here. If you’re a console freak or don’t like the html overhead , use the cli version of webpin.
A few months ago I used it to find kalarm. I was very surprised to find only KDE4 packages and no help on the irc channel. So I compiled it myself and all went well. Except, you easily get tired of compiling yourself if you have to do that every time there is some new version of some related component.. So I tried once more today to find a package as I couldn’t believe it wouldn’t exist. I even had the impression it would be part of the kde packages, I just couldn’t find which one. 🙂
That’s how I got talking to benJIman, the guy behind webpin, the search engine on top of the buildservice. He pointed out to me that you can find the right package and that it _is_ present in the buildservice, by specifying “bin/kalarm” as a search string instead of just “kalarm”.
The explanation is quite simple: when searching using webpin, it looks for package names that match. If there are no matches, it tries an rpm file contents based search (so, more fine-grained). If you specify a partial filename path, it immediately does the file content based search. He said this approach was chosen in an attempt to reduce the load on the server, although due to recent upgrades (both soft and hardware?) it should be able to handle all “full” searches by now.
another mystery solved! 🙂
oh btw, the package name was “kdepim3-time-management : This package contains tools for address and date organisation.” ! bad points for suse on the package description 😉