pacman --sync

Arch Linux package manager utility.

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• Install a new package:

sudo pacman --sync {package_name}

• Synchronize and update all packages (add --downloadonly to download the packages and not update them):

sudo pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade

• Update all packages and install a new one without prompting:

sudo pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade --noconfirm {package_name}

• Search the package database for a regular expression or keyword:

pacman --sync --search "{search_pattern}"

• Display information about a package:

pacman --sync --info {package_name}

• Overwrite conflicting files during a package update:

sudo pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade --overwrite {path/to/file}

• Synchronize and update all packages, but ignore a specific package (can be used more than once):

sudo pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade --ignore {package_name}

• Remove not installed packages and unused repositories from the cache (use two --clean flags to clean all packages):

sudo pacman --sync --clean

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