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

Removing a Package

pacman -R packageName

With dependencies

pacman -Rsc packageName


Searching for whatprovides

Install the pkgfile utilitiy

pacman -S pkgfile

Update the repo:

pkgfile --update

Then to search:

pkgfile -s lspci
core/pciutils