I’m using pamac. Is there a reason I should switch to pacman?

Just pacman know is needed, because pamac just is a alien software. And its the most of candidate to replace pacman in manjaro over some period. But on arch based you must not rely to much also because arch does not take care of the health of the frondend :slight_smile: you can use what you want bu…

[image] alenbasic: Do not do this. Someone borked their install because they were doing this to remove gnome3 It doesn’t remove things unless you tell it to, so they must have pressed Enter without checking which packages would be removed. That’s user error, not a problem with the command.

[image] jonathon: It doesn’t remove things unless you tell it to, so they must have pressed Enter without checking which packages would be removed. That’s user error, not a problem with the command. Well of course it doesn’t remove packages unless the command is actually run…The issue isn’t t…

It’s hard to think of a shell command that is 100% idiot-proof. You can redirect the output of echo into an important file and that’s it for that file. User errors are user errors, we’ve all made them, hopefully learnt our lessons. That’s not a problem with the command.

as for the 100 commands of pacman there mayby 4 you daily use :slight_smile:

I made a little list of ones worth remembering: [image] Default command line way to install,remove,list packages Newbie Some pacman options worth remembering Options What it does -Syu perform a full update (you should use this when updating). -Syyu f…

[image] ringo: pacman there mayby 4 you daily use Which are they? I’m going to read up on them.

Personal Pacman -S , -Q ,-R and mix of them :slight_smile: -Ss -Qs -Qi -Si -Rnsc , more is not needed :stuck_out_tongue: i say four…mmmmm

[image] Ben: Look it up, then assign pacman -Rsc to ‘uninstall’ [image] Kresimir: That’s not a problem with the command. -Rsc is not the equivalent to uninstall. Using it as such (with the assumptions of the equivalent safety) is a bad idea. There’s nothing wrong with rm -rf / --no-pre…

When you run -Rsc you get a list of all the packages that command will remove. You answer no if there is any package on that list that you wish to keep. It’s is not a dangerous command at all, unless you use it carelessly, and then every command is potentially dangerous. It’s not at all similar to r…

Pacman vs Pamac

General system Pacman & AUR helpers

Kresimir August 27, 2020, 11:05am 29

I made a little list of ones worth remembering: