Comments on: Archlinux tools: Pacman

By: schiv

schiv — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:29:54 +0000

hi pacman -A is deprecated. pacman -U takes care of that now.

There is also pacman -Rc, similar to -Rs but at the moment i can’t recall its purpose by itself, not forgetting -Rsc which is mentioned above. -Rsc won’t delete the whole OS heheh, its a handy tool to get rid of junk. To force remove there is -Rd. Anyway, i guess this is just an introduction for potential users so u don’t have to edit the article and slot in every detail.

Btw im posting to say thanks, i noticed a new option which is -Rn for purging! Damn my ignorance.

By: michuk

michuk — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:20:36 +0000

…thus deleting your whole OS

By: Phrodo_00

Phrodo_00 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:38:46 +0000

Nice article, however you forgot pacman’s most kickass feature: pacman -Rsc , that will delete the package, the packages that depend on it and the packages it depens on and those depend on (and so on) that aren’t required by any other package and weren’t explicitely installed.

By: Phillip Smith

Phillip Smith — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:30:04 +0000

Yes - ‘pacman -Ss keyword’

By: me

me — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:49:14 +0000

Is there a pacman command to search package in the repository (not installed package)? Like “apt-cache search something”

By: michuk

michuk — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:55:30 +0000

Of course. Corrected. Thanks.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:49:20 +0000

Yes, It should be “keyword” i think. Or package.

By: yoshi314

yoshi314 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:59:23 +0000

“pacman -Ss password - search a new password in the database”

bad translation? :>