Pacman

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Archlinux's package manager.
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Documentation

archwiki pacman https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman
archwiki PKGBUILD https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD
archwiki mirrors https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors
latest mirrorlist https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?ip_version=4

Locations

/etc/pacman.conf configure which repos to pull from (core, extra, communnity, multilib)
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist configure which sources to pull from (waterloo, queensu etc)
/var/cache/pacman/pkg currently installed programs. Can use these archives to rollback to older versions of program.
/var/log/pacman.log history of pacman operations
/var/lib/pacman/db.lck pacman lockfile

Notes

pacman usage
pacman configuration
pacman packages
pacman troubleshooting