Installing local packages
By using pacman we can install packages other than the main repository of Arch Linux. Use the following command to install the packages
For local:
sudo pacman -U path_to_file.pkg.tar.xz
For remote package:
sudo pacman -U http://www.example.com/repo/example.pkg.tar.xz
Pacman command in Arch Linux
Pacman is a package manager for the arch Linux and arch-based Linux distributions. If you have used Debian-based OS like ubuntu, then the Pacman is similar to the apt command of Debian-based operating systems. Pacman contains the compressed files as a package format and maintains a text-based package database. Pacman keeps the system up to date by synchronizing package lists with the master server. Pacman can install the packages from the official repositories or your own build packages.
In this article, we are going to see how to use Pacman to manage the software in arch-based systems. Now let’s see how to use Pacman.