Pacman Cheat Sheet

Cheat sheet for Pacman, the Arch Linux package manager.

Cheat sheet with basic commands for Pacman [1], the Arch Linux [2] package manager. Pacman combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build system. The goal of pacman is to make it possible to easily manage packages, whether they are from the official repositories or the user's own builds.

Commands

Update

pacman -Syu: Update system
pacman -Syy: Update database

Installing packages

pacman -S package_name: Install package package_name
pacman -U /path/to/package_name: Install package package_name
makepkg -si package_name: Install package package_name

Removing packages

pacman -R package_name: Remove package package_name
pacman -Rs package_name: Remove package package_name incl. unneeded dependencies
pacman -Rns package_name: Remove package package_name incl. unneeded dependencies and global configuration
pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq): Remove multiple unneeded packages incl. unused dependencies.

Search & Query

pacman -Qi package_name: Retrieve package_name info