Pacman 3
Pacman let's you define, install, configure and setup software.
Users Guide
- Getting started: -get and -remove
- Controlling verbosity, output and stepping through installations
- Using -fetch, -install, -get, -setup, -uninstall and -remove
- Basic use of version, release and tags
- Verify and repair
- Answering installation questions
- Caches
- Updating
- The language
How Tos
- How to access caches via SSH and Globus
- How to install carefully
- How to tell what parts of your system have been modified by Pacman
- How to use Pacman to guarantee correct software setup steps
- How to protect installations from being altered by other packages
- How to make a package that configures another package
- How to ask questions during installation
- How to deal with linux kernel versions, gcc versions etc.
- How to set system-wide environment variables
- How to deal with licensed software
- How to make mixed owner installations
- How to be a good cache manager
Tutorials
- Writing your own Pacman packages
- Handling multiple versions of the same software
- Advanced updating tutorial I
- Advanced updating tutorial II
Appendices
- The full package specification syntax
- FAQ
- Release notes
- Acknowledgements
- License