A friendly guide to Pacman on Arch Linux and Arch-based Distros

[@SergioOlivieri89]

I'm binge watching your videos since yesterday 😂 keep making videos, they are amazing. Much love from Italy 🙃

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Timestamps if you wish to skip to a certain topic! If you have any questions, feel free to comment - I will reply :^) 0:00 Intro & Pacman/Rosetta 1:00 Updating mirrors 1:45 Installing a package 2:05 Updating system 3:28 Removing a package & dependencies 4:50 Searching packages & package info 8:24 Removing unneeded dependencies & clearing cache 10:17 Discussing the pacman configuration (/etc/pacman.conf) 13:35 Downgrading a package 14:53 AUR & Installing an AUR helper 16:08 Paccache-hook (a Pacman hook to clear your cache regularly) 17:08 Some common troubleshooting

[@takennmc]

talking about partial upgrades for those who are newer you sould avoid running pacman -Sy if you sync with the mirror you should also update to prevent dependency issues

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thanks for mentioning!

[@alexwhite3271]

I'm finally trying out Arch after using Debian for a long time. This video is so helpful and great.

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Awesome, welcome to Arch! Thank you so much :)

[@EnigmaticEon1]

Funny, i finally did the move from windows to arch last week and i wanted to know what pacman is and what it dose. Thanks a lot, it's a easy and clear guide to follow and udnerstand

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Awesome, welcome to Arch! You're welcome, and thank you for watching. :)

[@SachinSankar-h2w]

Really great video, clean and easy to understand 😃

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thanks so much!

[@capi1O]

Just to be clear @2:40 even if not updating regularly it is ok to install a new package (for instance zsh with pacman -S zsh), there is no risk of partial upgrade. This only happens when updating an existing package. Unfortunately the command is the same in both case (pacman -S zsh). You would risk though not having the very last version of that package.

[@Fred-oliveiriks]

great guide! keep posting videos! thanks a lot!

[@BreadOnPenguins]

No problem and thank you for watching! I definitely intend to :^)

[@flipinfin]

Great explantion of pacman. Sometimes i use Rsu. Side note you should mention when updating arch linux comes out with a new iso every month

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thank you very much! The ISO is only needed for initial installation, or if you have to go back and fix something down the line - while it's worth keeping a copy around and relatively up-to-date, it's not the sort of thing where you'll need to be worried about updating to each new version. But thanks for mentioning :)

[@flipinfin]

@@BreadOnPenguins i thought they merged in the update

[@pouyai-t7f]

Very cool things using -Q flag, thanks! Fantastic video :)

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Np, and thank you! :)

[@arianh]

Great video! Thanks.

[@BreadOnPenguins]

No problem! Thanks for watching :)

[@hackerware_sh]

There’s also the ‘checkupdates’ command from the ‘pacman-contrib’ package that you can use to safelly see what packages have new releases (non AUR). Also ‘yay -Qu’ to check for AUR only package updates. Combine both commands in a bash script for convenience.

[@amateur_hacker]

You should definitely give a hand to Hyprland that's just gem for me. By the way your setup looking cool with suckless dwm :) and thanks for this super awesome tutorial!.

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Hey, thanks for watching and commenting! Yup I've heard plenty about Hyprland, personally I prefer minimal and simple, but Hyprland is aesthetically awesome lol. Thanks so much, and no problem!

[@viktor133100]

Great video. I'm staying on Debian. But still think Arch is awesome.

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thanks! Fair enough :-)

[@CyperN077]

Great video! I learned something I should have known, but I'm too lazy to read the documents. Thanks!

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thanks! Fair enough, we're all guilty of that from time to time :) No problem

[@CyperN077]

I created a script called package-manager aliased to pm. With pm -i = 'paru -Slq | fzf -q "$1" -m --preview 'paru -Si {1}' | xargs -ro paru -S''

[@neobscura]

Good video for beginners. I would have added the mirrors and reflector. This is a huge problem for beginners who don't set their mirrorlist properly when some repos inevitably become unreachable during an update.

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Mirrors and updating using reflector was actually the first thing I talked about, at around 1:00 - though I do also suggest in my Arch installation video to run reflector before pacstrap.

[@neobscura]

@@BreadOnPenguins Whoops. My bad. I watch your vids at random over several days (a few minutes here and there) and I must have forgot that part. Don't mind me !

[@LucaCanali]

Thank's, very good tips and tricks ... wich aproch you use to manage your dot files ???

[@BreadOnPenguins]

No problem, and thank you for watching! I like to keep dotfiles cleanly stored out of the home directory when possible, other than that nothing too special

[@andresroliveira]

Bom vídeo 👍

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Thank you!

[@senuthdintharu5919]

can you give us a tutorial on how to customize desktop enviornment like yours. i really like it❤

[@BreadOnPenguins]

Hello, sure! I've actually already made a couple of vids talking about dwmblocks and dmenu, two of the biggest parts of my WM setup :)

[@sunriseleatherco.6587]

The sound of that keyboard though ... mechanical?

[@BreadOnPenguins]

In this video it's razer blackwidow v4 yellow switches, but I actually stopped using that due to switches failing, and went back to a very old corsair w/ cherry reds.

[@takennmc]

tmux is also a good tool incase your gui crashes

[@BreadOnPenguins]

True, or switching to another TTY as well