Searching for a Package
Now let’s see how we can search the package into the database of pacman. To search query in the name and description of the package in the database use the following command:
sudo pacman -Ss <query1> <query2>
To search into already installed packages on the system, use the following command:
sudo pacman -Qs query1> <query2>
To search the query into the local database use the following command:
sudo pacman -F query1> <query2>
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.