PACTRANS(1) pactrans PACTRANS(1) NAME pactrans, pacinstall, pacremove - install/remove alpm packages SYNOPSIS pactrans [options] ... pacinstall [options] ... pacremove [options] ... pactrans (--help|--version) DESCRIPTION Install/remove alpm packages. The pacinstall and pacremove aliases are provided as a convenience, differing only in their default interpretation of targets. Otherwise, they are identical. If stdin is not connected to a terminal, pkgspecs to install/remove will be read from stdin. OPTIONS Operations Operation options affect the interpretation of all targets following them until another operation option is encountered. --spec (pactrans default) Interpret following targets as pkgspecs. If a pkgspec indicates a package file or a repository package, it will be installed. If it indicates a package in the local database, it will be removed. See PKGSPEC for details on the format. --install (pacinstall default) Interpret following targets as packages to be installed from a repository. If only the package name is provided repositories will be searched in the order they are declared. --remove (pacremove default) Interpret following targets as package names to be uninstalled. --file Interpret following targets as paths to package files to be installed. --sysupgrade Upgrade installed packages. Configuration Options --cachedir=path Set an alternate cache directory path. --config=path Set an alternate configuration file path. --dbext=extension Set an alternate sync database extension. --dbpath=path Set an alternate database path. --logfile=path Set an alternate log file path. --root=path Set an alternate installation root. --sysroot=path Set an alternate system root. See pacutils-sysroot(7). --null[=sep] Set an alternate separator for values parsed from stdin. By default a newline "\n" is used as the separator. If --null is used without specifying sep "NUL" will be used. --debug Display additional debugging information. --print-only Display the what the transaction would do and exit. --no-confirm Assume default responses to all prompts. --no-timeout Disable low-speed timeouts for downloads. --help Display usage information and exit. --version Display version information and exit. Transaction Options --dbsync Update sync databases before performing the transaction. --dbonly Make the changes to the database without actually extracting or removing any packages. --nodeps Ignore dependency versions. Pass twice to ignore dependency checks altogether. --no-scriptlet Do not run package install scripts. --no-hooks Do not run transaction hooks. --assume-installed=package[=version] Behave as if package is installed. Sysupgrade Options --ignore-pkg=package Ignore upgrades for package package. package may be a shell-style glob pattern. --ignore-group=group Ignore upgrades for any packages in group group. group may be a shell-style glob pattern. --install/--file Options --as-deps Mark all installed packages as dependencies. --as-explicit Mark all installed packages as explicitly installed. --download-only Download packages without actually installing them. --remove Options --cascade Uninstall all installed packages that depend on a package being uninstalled. --no-backup Do not save .pacsave backups. --recursive Uninstall any dependencies of packages being removed that are not required by any other packages. --unneeded Do not uninstall any packages required by an installed package. Prompt Disposition Options --resolve-conflicts=method Select a method to use for resolving conflicts. Possible values for method are: "prompt" Prompt the user to remove the installed conflicting package. "none" Do not remove any conflicting packages. "all" Remove any conflicting packages. "provided" Remove a conflicting package if the new package provides it. "depends" Remove a conflicting package if it was installed as a dependency. "provided-depends" Remove a conflicting package if it was installed as a dependency and the new package provides it. --resolve-replacements=method Select a method to use for resolving replacements. Possible values for method are: "prompt" Prompt the user to replace the package. "none" Do not replace any packages. "all" Perform all available package replacements. "provided" Perform replacements where the new package provides the old one. "depends" Perform replacements where the old package was installed as a dependency. "provided-depends" Perform replacements where the old package was installed as a dependency and the new package provides the old one. --install-ignored-packages=prompt|yes|no Set the disposition for prompts to install ignored packages. --delete-corrupt-files=prompt|yes|no Set the disposition for prompts to delete corrupt package. --use-first-provider=prompt|yes|no Set the disposition for prompts to select a provider. If set to "yes", the first available provider will be selected. --skip-unresolvable=prompt|yes|no Set the disposition for prompts to skip packages with unresolvable dependencies. --import-pgp-keys=prompt|yes|no Set the disposition for prompts to import missing PGP keys. --yolo Set all prompt disposition options to their "all" or "yes" value and set --no-confirm. NOTE: regardless of the disposition options chosen, all dependencies must still be satisfied in order for the transaction to succeed unless --nodeps is used as well. PKGSPEC A pkgspec is a string that can identify an individual package. Accepted formats are: / core/pacman local/pacman :// file:///var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-4.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz EXAMPLES Replace foo with bar pactrans local/foo baz/bar Or, if bar's repository is unknown: pacinstall bar --remove foo Install foo and bar: pactrans --install foo bar CAVEATS pactrans determines whether or not to read pkgspecs from stdin based on a naive check using isatty(3). If pactrans is called in an environment, such as a shell function or script being used in a pipe, where stdin is not connected to a terminal but does not contain pkgspecs to install/remove, pactrans should be called with stdin closed. For POSIX-compatible shells, this can be done with "<&-". pacutils 2024-04-16 PACTRANS(1)