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Pacman

Adds aliases for the pacman package manager. Also includes optional helper aliases.

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pacman

Adds aliases for the pacman package manager.

Also includes optional helper(s).

Settings

Change privilege command between sudo, doas (default: sudo):

zstyle ':zim:pacman' priv_cmd 'doas'

Set wrapper_here to a wrapper if applicable (powerpill, pacmatic, etc):

zstyle ':zim:pacman' frontend 'wrapper_here'

Add any helper scripts to be loaded:

zstyle ':zim:pacman' helpers 'aur'

Add the zstyles to the beginning of your ~/.zshrc, before the modules are initialized with source ${ZIM_HOME}/init.zsh.

Aliases

  • pacb builds package in the current directory, cleanups, and installs.
  • paci installs, syncs, and upgrades packages.
  • pacu installs, syncs, and upgrades packages (forcibly refreshes package list).
  • pacU installs packages from pkg file.
  • pacd installs all packages in current directory.
  • pacr removes package and unneeded dependencies.
  • pacrm removes package, unneeded dependencies, and configuration files.
  • pacq queries package information from remote repository.
  • pacQ queries package information from local repository.
  • pacs searches for package in the remote repository.
  • pacS searches for package in the local repository.
  • pacol lists orphan packages.
  • pacor removes all orphan packages.
  • pacown lists all files provided by a given package.
  • pacblame shows packages that own a specified file.

Helpers

aur

provides simple AUR helper aliases.

  • aurb clones the given package name from the AUR, builds, and installs.
  • aurd clones the given package name from the AUR, but does not build.
  • auru from a directory created with aurb, will update, build, and install the package.

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