Pacman 3

Pacman lets you define, install, configure and setup software.

Users Guide

1. Getting started: -get and -remove
2. Controlling verbosity, output and stepping through installations
3. Using -fetch, -install, -get, -setup, -uninstall and -remove
4. Basic use of version, release and tags
5. Verify and repair
6. Answering installation questions
7. Updating
8. Caches
   • Source caches
   • Cache lists
   • Installations are caches too
   • Snapshots
   • Mirrors
   • Pacball scripts
   • Specifying a cache
9. The language
   • Basics
   • Packages
   • Versions, releases, tags, natively installed software
   • Shell command execution
   • System properties
   • Grid related atoms
   • File access manipulation
   • Index

How Tos

1. How to access caches via SSH and Globus
2. How to install carefully
3. How to tell what parts of your system have been modified by Pacman
4. How to use Pacman to guarantee correct software setups
5. How to protect installations from being altered by other packages
6. How to make a package that configures another package
7. How to ask questions during installation
8. How to deal with linux kernel versions, gcc versions etc.
9. How to set system-wide environment variables
10. How to deal with licensed software
11. How to make mixed owner installations
12. How to be a good cache manager
13. How to lock a source cache while you make changes

Tutorials

1. Writing your own Pacman packages

Appendices

1. Language Index
2. Release notes
3. Known problems and workarounds
4. FAQ
5. The full package specification syntax
6. Acknowledgements
7. License

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