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 pacman package manager

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Documentation

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman

  Arch wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks

  Tips & tricks.

https://www.msys2.org/docs/package-management/

  MSYS2 / Mingw64 package management with pacman.

Package management

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List installed packages::

  pacman -Q

Info about a package::

  pacman -Qi $NAME

Finding dependencies of a package::

  pactree $PKG

Install a package::

  $ pacman -Ss $NAME

Update system::

  pacman -Syy

Upgrade system::

  pacman -Syu

Remove a package::

  pacman -R $NAME

Remove a package with unused dependencies::

  pacman -Rs $NAME

Remove a package with all dependencies::

  pacman -Rcns $NAME

Download a package::

  pacman -Sw $PKG

Install a package from a file::

   pacman -U $PKG.zst

   pacman -U $PKG.tar.xz

Search for a package

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By name among remote available packages::

  pacman -Ss $REGEX

Among already installed::

  pacman -Qs $NAME

To search for a package by a file name among installed packages::

  pacman -Qo $FULL_PATH

To search for a package by a file name in remote packages::

  pacman -F $NAME

To weaken search for packages with a given subscring in a file name::

  pacman -Fx $NAME

To update file name package database::

  pacman -Fy

To list all installed packages::

  pacman -Qq

To list only explicitely user requested installed packages::

  pacman -Qqe

To list files for an installed package::

  pacman -Ql $PKG

To list files from a package based on repote information::

  pacman -Fl $PKG