🚀 TL;DR - pacman

2021-05-04 108 words One minute

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I use Arch btw

`pacman`

The famous packet manager for Archlinux.

Basic usage

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pacman -S package # install package
pacman -R package # uninstall package
pacman -Syu # check for package updates
pacman -Q # list installed packages
pacman -Q word # list installed packages containing word

Bonus

Nothing to do with pacman, but you can install packages from the AUR repo too!

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cd ~/.local/share
git clone aur_repo
cd aur_repo
makepkg -isc

AUR packages are updated by the community and are meant to be built from source, in order to optimize the package for your machine.

Resources

https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks