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Pacman Home Page
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A simple library-based package manager.
Introduction
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== Introduction
pacman is a utility which manages software packages in Linux. It uses simple
compressed files as a package format, and maintains a text-based package
database (more of a hierarchy), just in case some hand tweaking is necessary.
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installed packages, files and owners. It also attempts to handle dependencies
automatically and can download packages from a remote server.
History
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Version 2.0 of pacman introduced the ability to sync packages (the '\--sync'
== History
Version 2.0 of pacman introduced the ability to sync packages (the '--sync'
option) with a master server through the use of package databases. Prior to
this, packages would have to be installed manually using the '\--add' and
'\--upgrade' operations.
this, packages would have to be installed manually using the '--add' and
'--upgrade' operations.
Version 3.0 was the switch to a two-part pacman -- a back-end named libalpm
(library for Arch Linux Package Management) and the familiar pacman front-end.
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Version 6.0 added support for parallel downloads.
Documentation
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== Documentation
=== Man Pages
Man Pages
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There are several man pages available for the programs, utilities, and
configuration files dealing with pacman.
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* linkman:repo-add[8]
* linkman:vercmp[8]
Changelog
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=== Changelog
For a good idea of what is going on in pacman development, take a look at the
link:https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman[Git summary page] for the
project.
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file for a not-as-frequently-updated list of changes. However, this should
contain the biggest changes in a format more concise than the commit log.
Releases
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== Releases
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Source code for releases since moving to gitlab is available at
link:https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/releases[].
Source code for historical releases is available at
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You may wish to read the options presented by `meson` in order to
set appropriate paths and build options that are correct for your system.
Development
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== Development
=== Mailing List
Mailing List
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There is a mailing list devoted to pacman development, hosted by Arch Linux.
link:https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/pacman-dev/[Subscribe] or
link:https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/[view the archives].
Source Code
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=== Source Code
Development of pacman is currently done in Git. The central repository is
hosted by Arch Linux, although some of the developers have their own trees (ask
on the above mailing lists if you are interested in finding the locations of
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translation file for your native language. Instructions can be found in
link:translation-help.html[translation-help].
Bugs
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== Bugs
If you find bugs (which is quite likely), please report them to the issue
tracker at link:https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues[] with
specific information such as your command-line, the nature of the bug, and even
the package database if it helps.
Copyright
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== Copyright
pacman is Copyright (C) 2006-2024 Pacman Development Team
<pacman-dev@lists.archlinux.org> and Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
<jvinet@zeroflux.org> and is licensed through the GNU General Public License,

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