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The Fractured Singleton: Jacman: Package Management in Arch Linux

[ Thanks to Jason R.
Kretzer
for this link. ]

“Arch Linux is not what one would call a ‘newbie friendly’
distribution. As such, the default package management software,
Pacman, has no default GUI front end to it. Pacman is all CLI. In
many regards, it is very similar to apt from Debian and portage
from Gentoo. The basics of Pacman’s operation are, like most other
package utilities, installing, removing, and updating packages.

“For my personal use, I don’t mind the command line…”


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