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#+title: Command line: pacman
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#+date: "2021-06-08 15:00:04 +08:00"
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#+date_modified: "2021-11-06 12:12:06 +08:00"
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#+language: en
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#+property: header_args :eval no
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The built-in package manager of Arch Linux (among others).
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This note is based from =pacman v6= and above.
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* Subcommands
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Interestingly, pacman does not have subcommands with specific options.
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Instead, they go with specific flags denoting a subcommand.
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Practically, they're just subcommands except appearing as options.
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#+begin_src shell
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# Rather than 'pacman install podman' or something similar.
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pacman -S podman
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#+end_src
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Here's what you can do with the package manager:
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- =-S= are concerned with syncing the local database to the remote databases.
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- =-y, --refresh= syncs the local database to the remote database; running with this flag alone is not recommended as the package manager will have problems.
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- =-u, --sysupgrade= upgrades the local database; this should be used with =-y= if you intend it for a proper operating system upgrade.
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- =-g, --groups [GROUP]= prints what packages belong to the given group
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- =-Q= is primarily from querying information from your installed packages ranging from listing installed packages to listing all of the files owned by a certain package.
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- =-l, --list [PACKAGES...]= lists the files associated with the package.
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- =-i, --info [PACKAGES...]= prints information about the package.
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- =-F [FILENAME]= are mostly query-related operations with the database.
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It also prints which package owns the given file.
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- =-y, --refresh= refreshes the database.
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- =-R= removes installed packages.
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- =-n, --nosave= removes the configuration files associated with the package; this doesn't remove files from the home directory, though.
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- =-s, --recursive= will recursively removes dependencies that are not used anywhere else.
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You can see more of them in the "Operations" section of the manual page (i.e., =pacman.1=).
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* Examples
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Welp, this is what you came for so let's go ahead.
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** Quickstart
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It's a package manager so it's supposed to do basic package manager stuff.
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All of the shown commands are in longform with the shortform just commented for practical purposes.
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#+begin_src shell
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# Search for a pacakge
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# pacman -Ss podman
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pacman --sync --search podman
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# Install a package
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# pacman -S podman
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pacman --sync podman
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# Uninstall a package
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# pacman -Rns podman
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pacman --remove --no-save --recursive podman
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# Upgrade the system
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# pacman -Syu
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pacman --sync --refresh --upgrade
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#+end_src
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** Package search selection
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With everybody's favorite fuzzy finder, [[id:4eb1f8b1-bc12-4a6c-8fa4-20e4c3542cf2][fzf]].
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#+begin_src bash
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pacman --sync --quiet --search pkg | fzf --prompt "Package to install > " | xargs doas pacman --sync
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#+end_src
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You can also create a search selection with all of the packages with the following one-liner.
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#+begin_src bash
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pacman -S --list --quiet \
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| fzf --multi --prompt "Install package(s) > " \
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| xargs doas pacman -S --noconfirm
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#+end_src
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** Package removal selection
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Another interactive script with [[id:4eb1f8b1-bc12-4a6c-8fa4-20e4c3542cf2][fzf]].
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#+begin_src bash
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pacman -Q --native --quiet | fzf --multi --prompt "Remove installed package(s) > " | xargs doas pacman -Rns --noconfirm
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#+end_src
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* Related notes
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- pacman does not have a way to query packages that are not installed;
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for example, you cannot know what files are owned by the package unless it is installed (also you have =pkgfile= for that)
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- pacman also cannot view the PKGBUILD of packages that are not installed;
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you can use the =asp= tool for that (i.e., ~asp show ${PACKAGE}~)
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