Pacman

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Pacman is the package manager for arch linux.

Introduction

Configuration files are stored in /etc/pacman

Updating Databases

Similar to a yum clean all ; yum update you can update the repository information by running:

pacman -Syy

Searching

Search for a package

pacman -Ss packageName

Installing

pacman -S packageName groupName

Updating System

pacman -Syu