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Pacman Basic Essentials Cheatsheet
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Pacman from Arch and Manjaro is a great package manager, but is unfamiliar to many. This page contains a very basic cheatsheet with the essentials to get you started in pacman. This cheatsheet deliberately excludes a great many lesser used commands to make it easy for you to see at a glance the commands to update/upgrade, install, and fix key signature problems.
| Task | Command | Notes |
| Update and upgrade all | pacman -Syu | Update and upgrade best done as package deal |
| Solve "bad key sig" problems | pacman -S \ archlinux-keyring |
Doesn't always work |
| Solve "bad key sig" problems | pacman -S \ manjaro-keyring |
For Manjaro specific keys |
| Exclude bad signature package | pacman -Syu \ --ignore badpkgname |
Do if pacman -S archlinux-keyring didn't work |
| Install specific package | pacman -S pkgname | |
| Find available packages | pacman -Ss keyword | Like apt-cache search |
| Find available local packages | pacman -Qs keyword | Like -Ss but local only |
| List all files from package | pacman -Ql pkgname | |
| Find your distro version | lsb_release -a | |
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If the preceding cheat sheet doesn't contain the commands you need, then you're ready for the much more complex Pacman Rosetta page. Then later, to re-remember run of the mill pacman commands, return here.
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