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Pacman is a simple library-based package manager used in some Linux distributions, e.g. Arch Linux.

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How to downgrade a specfic package using Pacman

How is it possible to downgrade a package version using Pacman in Arch distributions? for example, python-flask is version 2. But I need to downgrade it to 1.1.2-4. How Can I do it?
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MSYS2 on Windows 10 - cannot update the package database using pacman

I tried to update my MSYS2 on Windows 10 (as per the instructions on https://www.msys2.org/) and I got this error: OscarAlvarez@Lambda-Station-OA MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -Syu error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.mingw could not be read: No such…
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Parsing a description file and store information in a map

I have a directory with multiple description files and want to store the information in a map to use later to implement a package manager. Apparently, I read the files correctly, but when I try to filter the information, some things get lost. In…
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Can I update package dependencies in Arch Linux?

I've installed shellcheck on Arch and tried to use, but it thrown error: shellcheck: error while loading shared libraries: libHSaeson-1.5.4.1-A0L815KAfIF5MogEzEmc2-ghc8.10.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I installed…
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Can't load R packages after installation

So I have installed R 3.6.3 and I am getting errors when I am trying to load packages, after installing them. I am getting the following errors - > library(cartogram) Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘cartogram’ in get(Info[i, 1], envir =…
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Msys2: readline in two python installations

I am top-posting EDITs so the reader does not need to locate the current status. This is a specific question related to the two python installations mentioned in Msys2: Maintaining two python installations $ pacman -Sl | grep "python " | grep…
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Removing package group except some packages

So, I was trying to remove GNOME by sudo pacman -Rsn gnome but I got the error checking dependencies... :: removing networkmanager breaks dependency 'networkmanager' required by network-manager-applet In fact, I don't want to remove the package…
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Unable to overwrite directory in Pacman

I am about to install a package, but it keeps failing because the file already exists. Since --force option is removed from pacman. I have been trying to overwrite the directory by --overwrite option but unfortunately, this option is also not…
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loading multiple R packages stored as an object using pacman's p_load

I'd like to use pacman's p_load function. I've read through the documentation and understand how to pass multiple packages into the function directly. However, I'd like to store the package names separately and feed them into pacman so that I can…
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python script for installing aur packages

I'm trying to make a python script for installing aur packages such as google-chrome, sublime-text etc for a fresh version of arch linux. I can clone the git url just fine but I have problems using the makepkg program. I can't run the script as sudo…
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Can you use apt in arch-linux

I like arch, though I have to use the pacman. Is there any way to use apt when having arch linux. I know that pacman is arch's default package manager, but I am used to Debian-based distros.
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Cmake within msys2 not able to find openssl

I've installed openssl into msys2 using pacman: pacman -S openssl However Cmake (within msys2) is still not able to find openssl libraries... CMake Error at C:/Langs/msys64/mingw64/share/cmake-3.9/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137…
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Does the "-S" in "pacman -S" stand for something? If so, what?

Many names of things on Linux are easy for me to remember if I know where they stem from (for example, cd standing for change directory). The -R in pacman -R package_name obviously stands for "remove", but what does the -S stand for in pacman -S…
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How to make the aur package into the archlinux community source?

I have already uploaded my aur package to the aur.archlinux.org (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xmake/). How to make the aur package into the archlinux community source? I want to run command pacman -S xmake to install my package. Who can help…
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downlaod issue with msys2 pacman

I am trying to setup msys2 as mentioned here. When i do the step 5 to run the "pacman -Sy pacman", it reports that error: failed retrieving file 'mingw32.db' from repo.msys2.org : The requested URL returned error: 403 error: failed retrieving file…
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