pacman
package manage difference with Fedora or Debian, see Rosetta
- pacman
- Help
- Updating
- Clean cache
- Software install & remove
- AUR
- Install downloaded package
- Query
- Dependencies
- Downgrade
- Others
Help
#search for help
man pacman
#for specific command
pacman -Qh
pacman -Sh
Updating
#Synchronising changed package in repositories
sudo pacman -Sy
#Synchronising all even package not chaned:
sudo pacman -Syy
#Updating, without synchronising list:
sudo pacman -Su
Update, with synchronising list:
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -Syyu
Clean cache
#clear the cache of downloads that have already been installed
sudo pacman -Sc
#clear the cache completely
sudo pacman -Scc
#safeway
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Software install & remove
#Searching software:
sudo pacman -Ss Chromium
#Installing Software or a group:
sudo pacman -S Chromium
sudo pacman -S gnome
#Remove software without dependencies:
sudo pacman -R Chromium
#Remove software and dependencies(not used by others softwares):
sudo pacman -Rs Chromium
#dowload package without installing:
sudo pacman -Sw Chromium
#Remove software, dependencies(not used by other softwares), configuration files:
sudo pacman -Rns Chromium
#reinstall all packages
pacman -S $(pacman -Qqen)
#search installed packages in a group
pacman -Sg gnome
Ignore packages: gedit etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg=package_name
IgnoreGroup=gnome
AUR
enable powerful AUR:
sudo pacman -S base-devel yaourt
install software from AUR:
yaourt visual-studio-code
yaourt pycharm
yaourt qtcreator
upgrading the packages from AUR:
yaourt -Syua
#use "yaourt" to download and rebuild the latest AUR packages from their source (regardless of PKGBUILD files):
yaourt -Syua --devel
#remove orphaned packages
yaourt -Qdt
#list installed packaegs from AUR
pacman -Qem
Install downloaded package
#install a downloaded pkg.tar.xz:
sudo pacman -U [/path/]package-name.pkg.tar.xz
#install via URL
pacman -U http://www.examplepackage/repo/examplepkg.tar.xz
Query
Get a list of installed packages: Name
pacman -Q
Search installed package:
pacman -Q|grep office
Query locally-installed packages for matching strings, basic information: Name & description
pacman -Qs creator
#Query detailed information: deps, required by, etc
pacman -Qi qtcreator
pacman -Si qtcreator
#include backup information
pacman -Qii qtcreator
find out which package own the direcotroy
pacman -Qo /etc/pacman.d/
Dependencies
#list all dependencies of a particular software package
pactree gedit
pactree -c gedit
pactree -s -c gedit
#list all Orphans
pacman -Qdt
Remove Orphan packages:
sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)
Downgrade
first install downgrade, then downgrade firefox
sudo pacman -S downgrde
downgrade firefox
you can remove all packages for the latest 2 or 3 package versions
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##or
paccache -rvk3
Others
change updating channel(not recommended):
#Switch to Tesing Manjaro:
sudo pacman-mirrors -g -b testing
#Switch to Unstable Manjaro:
sudo pacman-mirrors -g -b unstable
#Switch to Stable Manjaro:
sudo pacman-mirrors -g -b stable
#then you should "sudo pacman -Syyu"