pacapt(1) Arch's pacman-like package manager for some Unices

SYNOPSIS

pacapt [options(s)] [operation(s)] [package(s)]

DESCRIPTION

pacapt is an Arch's pacman-like package manager for some Unices. It is a bash script provides a wrapper for system's package manager.

OPTIONS

Basic

-h, --help
print help message
-P
print supported operations
-V
print version information

Query

-Q
list all installed packages
-Qc <package>
show package's changelog
-Qi <package>
print package status
-Ql <package>
list package's files
-Qm
list installed packages that aren't available in any installation source
-Qo <file>
query package that provides <file>
-Qp <file>
query a package file (don't use package database)
-Qs <package>
search for installed package

Synchronize

-S <package>
install package(s)
-Ss <package>
search for packages
-Su
upgrade the system
-Sy
update package database
-Suy
update package database, then upgrade the system

Remove / Clean up

-R <packages>
remove some packages
-Sc
delete old downloaded packages
-Scc
delete all downloaded packages
-Sccc
clean variant files. See also http://dragula.viettug.org/blogs/646

Miscellaneous

-w
download packages but don't install them
--noconfirm
don't wait for user's confirmation

EXAMPLES

1.
To install a package from Debian's backports repository
$ pacapt -S foobar -t lenny-backports
$ pacapt -S -- -t lenny-backports foobar

2.
To update package database and then update your system
$ pacapt -Syu

3.
To download a package without installing it
$ pacapt -Sw foobar

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by ChangZhuo Chen <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).