A Linux package manager, originally developed for the Arch Linux distribution.
The pacman package manager is a distribution agnostic binary package manager, originally developed for Arch Linux and now used by a number of different distributions.
Questions tagged [pacman]
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Arch: can't use pacman: error while loading shared libraries
I just finished installing Arch and setting up my wireless connection. I wanted to install additional packages so I tried using pacman.
But with every command I use I get the following error:
pacman: error while loading shared libraries:…
HDW
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What is the phonetical link between pacman's "--refresh" and "-y" options?
In pacman, --refresh and -y are the same option. But how are they phonetical related to each other? Is there a mnemonic?
For comparison: for many binaries -f is the short option of --force. It should be obvious how "f" is derived from "force" :)
Thomas Steinbach
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Format packages vertically in pacman
Suppose I don't upgrade my system for a while. Once I finally run pacman -Syu, I'll obviously get lots of packages. In cases like this, the output is completely unacceptable - all packages are written in one line without any kind of alignment, only…
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"warning: database file for 'custom' does not exist"
I write this in console:
sudo pacman -S kate
but for any package, I get this error:
warning: database file for 'custom' does not exist
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
I have tried
sudo pacman -Syu
but I still get…
Axx
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sudo pacman -S reflector returns "target not found reflector" on artix linux
sudo pacman -Syu returns
system is up to date
world is up to date
galaxy is up to date
::starting full system upgrade
there is nothing to do`
And then sudo pacman -S reflector returns error: target not found: reflector.
Also I get the same error…
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arch:what is the sync database? It located at /var/lib/pacman/sync
I know that the local database stores the information about the installed packages，but I do not know what the sync database is. So what is that ? Why i need it ?
bc l
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Difference in the sum of the output of pacsysclean vs. expac using awk?
I'm trying to see if I can learn something more about disk usage on my setup - with respect to installed packages(all). So I'm looking at the Arch Pacman Tips about maintenance. First I try :
expac -HM -s "%-30n %m" | awk '{s+=$2} END {print…
user44370
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pacman can't find package file added to custom repo database
I've added a package libxau-1.0.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst to my custom repository database custom.db.tar.gz using repo-add. The package file is located in the current directory, while the repo database is in the parent directory:
repo-add…
Rainb
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How does `pacman -S ` find the package?
I want to install man in MSYS2 so I tried both pacman -Ss man and pacman -Fs man (as per this question), as well a couple of others like pacman -Fs /usr/bin/man but they don't seem to give me an answer:
pacman -Ss man returns a lot of unrelated…
Borek Bernard
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Pacman complains "database 'core' does not exist"
Tried
pacman -S postgresql
which returns
Warning: atabase file fir 'core' does not exist
...
error: target not found: postgresql
How do I install postgresql?
citykid
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pacman: failed unable to update
I can't sync my archlinux. When I try to use pacman it get this:
ThinkPad-de-Micael_Andre% sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for dmicaelandre:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for dmicaelandre:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to…
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Arch Linux: Strange version mismatch when trying to install UWSGI with pacman. Is this common / trivial?
When I run pacman -S uwsgi or pacman -S community/uwsgi I get the following error:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (6): jansson-2.5-2 libxml2-2.9.1-5 libyaml-0.1.4-3
python2-2.7.6-1 sqlite-3.8.2-1 …
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