Thanks for the report, I may not get to this until i'm back from traveling. Calling scout directly as shown below works although '/usr/share/scout/bin-alien.db' doesn't exist on my machine so i'm going to need to look into what fish is actually doing here. simon@tek-top ~ ��� scout bin alien repository | package | path | binary ---------------------+---------+----------+-------- zypp (simotek-base) | alien | /usr/bin | alien