joplin-notes/joplin notion extension/manjaro/Basics.md

Basics

• To get a list of installed packages pacman -Qqe for all gtk packages pacman -Qs gtk for gtk version pacman -Q gtk

• To get list of package information including all dependencies it needs pacman -Si nodejs

• downloading build files ie tar.zst you go to https://archlinux.org/packages/ find the package you want in the top-right corner of the package's page, you click the download from mirror button, you do that for every package you want

• to get info of package pamac info <pkg_name> or yay -Si <pkg_name>

• to search repos and aur with keyword yay -Ss straw here straw is keyword

• to not reinstall package use yay -S --needed strawberry

• to get users and group list https://devconnected.com/how-to-list-users-and-groups-on-linux/ cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}' For connected users: who or users for less details   For groups cat /etc/group About its output first col is group name sec col : password 3rd: group id 4th: users in the group

• To complete remove packages pacman -Rns package_name The -Rns flags tell pacman to remove the packages, their configuration files (n), and their unneeded dependencies (s).

• Removing orphan package completely First, you need to identify the orphaned packages. This can be done using the pacman package manager with the following command:

pacman -Qdt

To remove these orphaned packages, you can use the same pacman command with the remove (-R) option:

pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq)

• When installing packages from pacman and we dont want any prompt and want the feafult in [y/n] then use the flag --noconfirm pacman -s firefox --noconfirm