Pacman is a simple library-based package manager used in some Linux distributions, e.g. Arch Linux.
Questions tagged [pacman-package-manager]
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How to stop the same package to be updated again and again in R?
I always use the same script to update my packages before working. It works well, but for a reason I can't explain, when I rerun the script, the same packages keep getting uploaded again and again. And at one point, it stops.
Today for example this…

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Why does my command stop working when I put it into an alias?
I am trying to run the following command
comm -23 <(pacman -Qqe | sort) <(awk '{print $1}' /desktopfs-pkgs.txt | sort)
I get the following…

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Opengl installation using MSYS2, cannot find -lglew32
I am currently working on a project in opengl, until now I have had the luck of working on a pre-installed linux environment.
Now I have to make it work on my windows machine, I am using MSYS2 and have installed the packages below (in addition to…

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Child Process prints normal outputs from stderror while using Pacman -U
The problem is basically, child process prints normal outputs as errors and I think that causes to something being stopped.
ERROR 1
==> WARNING: A package has already been built, installing existing package...
[sudo] password for user:
// That…

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List all installed packages of specific repo in arch
Say I have the repo foo listed in my pacman.conf configuration file:
[foo]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrolist-custom
I want to simply list of installed packages of my system from foo repo.

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Why pacman cannot find a package from aur.archlinux.org/packages?
I wanna install gnome-terminal-transparency package.
Here it is a link.
But my pacman cannot find anything related to gnome-terminal-transparency:
What's wrong?

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How can I replace a variable and do conditional inside to work to interpolate as input of pacman [fix script]?
First sorry, this is not the best title and it is difficult for me to understand, please consider edit.
I would like to understand what is happening
Steps:
First, run docker pull oblique/archlinux-yay.
Second, run docker run -it --rm 52a1e19f71c7…

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get output of subprocess whose output is constantly changing
I want to capture output of pacman package manager of archlinux. while doing so, I want to process it's output but also want to display it to user.
here what I came with so far:-
import subprocess as sb
import sys
lol = sb.Popen('sudo pacman…
user10146018
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How to get grep exit code without affecting standard output of piped command
I have this function:
psyu() {
sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm | grep -q 'non ci sono aggiornamenti'
[ $? != 0 ] &&
notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/arch.png "Packages upgraded" ||
notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/arch.png…

sirakai
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How to run cmake gui from the msys2 shell
Opening the mingw64 shell (from msys2) and typing cmake-gui I get the following error:
`$ cmake-gui
C:/DEV/msys64/mingw64/bin/cmake-gui.exe: error while loading shared libraries:`
Qt5WinExtras.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file…

Sergio
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WXU 3.0.5 not found with the latest version of wxgtk 3.0
So I'm packaging darkradiant as a pacman package. But when I execute darkradiant on the terminal it complains:
darkradiant: /usr/lib/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0: version `WXU_3.0.5'
not found (required by darkradiant)
darkradiant:…

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pacman xfercommand not working with echo and aria2
TLDR:
XferCommand = echo Downloading %u ... && /usr/bin/aria2c --conf-path=/etc/pacman-aria2.conf %u
in pacman.conf outputs
Downloading https://mirror.23media.com/manjaro/stable/core/x86_64/core.db ... && /usr/bin/aria2c…

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I am getting linking error while compilong opencv4 basic program?
I installed the OpenCV with the Pacman command. But i am getting hundred of lines of linking error. I compiled my program with the command
gcc example.cpp -o example `pkg-config --cflags --libs opencv4`
and the small part of the linking error is as…

Utkarsha Khanal
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I need a way to change Msys2 configuration to use Arch Linux AUR server mirrors instead of Msys2 ones
Because Msys2 sucks,
as mentioned above, I need to change its default server mirrors to point to Arch Linux Mingw-w64 AUR ones, and make it as the default one.
So when I issue some pacman -S mingw-w64-* it will download the package from Arch Linux…
user10076428
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Can Ruby interact with my root privileges?
This is my first question here, please tell me if I can in some way tag it better or make a better question :)
I'm trying to make a ruby script to install some packages and edit some configurations after I format a computer. I use Manjaro Linux, and…

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