pacman
Table of Contents
1. List
pacman -Qetn # explicitly installed native packages pacman -Qm # packages installed from aur(foreign packages) ancient-packages # installed packages no longer available (anywhere) pacman -Ql <package_name> # list all files owned by a given package pacman -Qtd # list orphan packages lostfiles # orphaned files not owned by any arch packages: paccheck --md5sum --quiet # listing all changed files from packages # TODO: add info
2. Search
pacman -Ss <term1> <term2> # fuzzy search db pacman -Qs <term1> <term2> # fuzzy search installed packages
3. Info
pacman -Qi [package_name] # details on an installed package pactree [package_name] # dependency tree: dependencies pactree -r [package_name] # dependency tree: dependants pacgraph -c # see how much size the packages are consuming
4. Remove/Clean
pacman -Rs [package_name] # remove a package and its dependencies(safe) pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqtd) # clean orphaned packages paccache -dv # list paccache -rv # clean
5. Updating mirrors
Prefer france and germany over indian servers
reflector --country France,Germany --age 12 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
6. Useful info
- No partial upgrades
- never run
pacman -Sy - always use
pacman -Syu - Always upgrade (with
pacman -Syu) before installing a package if possible - if there's any error when running
-Syu, it should be resolved asap
- never run