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Generally I only have to use the following: pacman -Ss (for the occasional search) pacman -Syu [pkgname] (I almost always use yu to ensure that things are alw
by yogo 14y ago
Generally I only have to use the following:
pacman -Ss (for the occasional search)
pacman -Syu [pkgname] (I almost always use yu to ensure that things are always in sync)
pacman -Rsun pkgname
pacman -Qi pkgname
pacman -Sc (used every so often)
I would say those cover 99% of my interaction with pacman. I'm not sure of any other interfaces to use it so it would be interesting to know more about how you use pacman.
- LukeShu 14y agoThere are several GUI wrappers around pacman (and several wrappers to unify it with AUR), but for the most part that's it. I'd add that I'd be careful about -n on -R (don't back up configuration files when removing a package); I'd let pacman back them, then catch them in my usual `sudo find /etc -name '.pac'`.
- notatoad 14y agoI've got to say, as somebody who is very comfortable with the command line (my job is linux server admin) but has never used arch before, that sounds pretty damn obtuse.