19 Apr
2010
19 Apr
'10
7:50 a.m.
On 04/16/2010 04:37 AM, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:
and as im a fresh arch user, if you have any tips on using pacman, please bash me :) (i just copied the commands from pacman rosetta)
The only thing I can think of that you might be missing through your approach is chaining commands together. For example, to update on Debian-based distros you have to do "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade", but on Arch you can combine the two commands ("sudo pacman -Sy; sudo pacman -Su") into one: sudo pacman -Syu. Similarly, if you want to update and then search, it's "sudo pacman -Sys searchterm". I assume you can do other combinations, but I can't think of any other useful ones. -Brendan Long