Comments on: Pacman Commands Cheat Sheet for Arch Linux

By: Angel

Angel — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:29:24 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive. You've mixed up your examples for querying package and installing a package. You have -Ss in your install example, which is the query package command and you have -S in your query example, which is the install package command.

By: JKMooney

JKMooney — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:19:35 +0000

The command sudo pacman -Rsc translates as follows

-R => Remove
-s => recursive
-c => cascade (remove all target packages as well as packages that depend on them).

So, pacman -Rsc is asking to purging an install. -Rs might be safer unless you know you won't inadvertently delete something you need to keep.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:53:52 +0000

In reply to Moltke.

@Moltke,

Thanks for the corrections. I have updated the article as per your suggestions…

By: Moltke

Moltke — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:53:06 +0000

Nice article, just a couple of things; sudo isn't needed when querying the database, but only to install and/or remove pkgs. Also, the correct syntax to install is *sudo pacman -S*, one -S- not 2. Another thing, you made a typo here: *For the leafpad package we installed earlier, we can get the following info about it:

$ sudo pacman -Qi apache*

You mentioned leafpad, but in the example used *apache*, and again, no need for sudo.