Pacman - Cheat Sheet

Below are a list of convenient pacman commands:

• pacman -S {pkg} – install {pkg}
• pacman -Syu – update package database and upgrade installed packages
• pacman -Sy – update package database
• pacman -Su – upgrade installed packages
• pacman -Syy – force update of package database even if recently updated
• pacman -Syyuw – download programs but leave them uninstalled (for manual install)
• pacman -Syu – equivalent to Debian sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
• pacman -F – search for package that contains program named in argument
• pacman -R {pkg} remove package {pkg}
• pacman -Rs – remove package as well as unneeded dependencies
• pacman -Rns – remove package, dependencies, and system config files (recommended for all package uninstallations)
• pacman -Q – display all installed packages
• pacman -Q | wc -l – display total number of installed packages by counting lines of output
• pacman -Qe – display only packages explicitly installed
• pacman -Qeq – display only names of explicitly installed packages, and not version numbers (“quiet”)
• pacman -Qn – display only packages installed from main repositories
• pacman -Qm – display only packages installed from AUR
• pacman -Qdt display orphaned dependencies
• pacman -Ss – search remote repository for package
• pacman -Qs – search local repository for package
• pacman -Sc – remove packages that are no longer installed from cache as well as unused sync databases
• pacman -Scc – remove everything cached, useful if downloaded package is corrupted