Pacman

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

Searching Package Ownership

When given a path (eg. /usr/bin/startx), you can find which package provided the file by using:

# pacman -Qo /usr/bin/startx

This is similar to RPM's rpm -qf /usr/bin/startx.