Pacman Package Update List Format

[Zoltan]

I’ve noticed that when I run pacman -Syu on EOS, when it lists the packages that will be updated, it lists them in a clean, vertical column list format similar to the output of ls -l. I have another machine that is running vanilla Arch, and I want to make pacman on that machine list packages the same way.

I’ve searched for this a few times, but searches always return results for package search and package query with various flags to filter which packages are listed and where they’re listed from, but I can’t find anything to make pacman list packages in a vertical column format.

I feel like an idiot, as I’m sure this is a very simple change to make. I think I’m probably just not searching with the right keywords. Any help would be appreciated.

[anon93652015]

Welcome to the community!

In your pacman.conf file remove the “#” from the following line:

VerbosePkgLists

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

Source: https://pacman.archlinux.page/pacman.conf.5.html

In addition to this, please ensure your terminal is wide enough or it will be displayed in the default way. “Wide enough” depends on the size of your terminal/monospace text.

[Zoltan]

Thank you. That’s much better. I knew it was going to be something simple that I was overlooking. Derp!