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