% pacget(8) pacget user manual % Md. Jahidul Hamid https://github.com/neurobin % September 03, 2017
pacget -- A wrapper around pacaur to mimic yaourt's search feature.
pacget [operation] [options] [target(s)]
pacget [packages_to_install]
All arguments are forwarded to pacaur excluding some special ones which are processed separately to provide some extended functionalities over pacaur.
pacget works the same way as pacaur and consequently pacman. All basic operations are processed with pacaur which wraps around pacman and thus you can use the same knowledge of pacman and pacaur.
pacget extends some operations provided by pacaur, such as the search functionality. pacget's -s operation searches both the official repo and AUR for the given search term and allows installing packages interactively (kinda like yaourt).
It can be used the same way as pacaur (consequently pacman). The only difference is that some options come with extra facilities.
Examples:
# Upgrade
pacget -Syu
# The following installs the package linux-lts
pacget -S linux-lts
# The following is a short form to pacget -S linux-lts
pacget linux-lts
# The following will search only arch official repo
# and give you option to select packages to install
pacget -r -s gimp
# The following will search only arch user repo aur
# and give you option to select packages to install
pacget -a -s gimp
# The following will search for gimp in both official repo and AUR
# and give you option to select packages to install
pacget -s gimp
-s, --search search_term
: Search for search_term in both official Archlinux repositories and AUR, then install packages selectively and interactively. This produces output like yaourt with indexed package list and lets you select the packages by index number (e.g 1,2,3 or 1 2 3) and index range (1-3 or 3-1) to install them. pacaurs options in general category are supported with this option.
-Ss, -S --search search_term
: Same as -s option.
-Fs, -F --search file_name
: Search for packages containing file by the name file_name in the official repo. pacget -Fy must be run at least once to use this search functionality. This produces output like yaourt with indexed package list and lets you select the packages by index number (e.g 1,2,3 or 1 2 3) and index range (1-3 or 3-1) to install them.
-cs search_term
: Same as -s, with compact output (no newlines after each package entry)
-c, --compact : Turn on compact mode.
-h, --help : Show help for pacget and pacaur
-v, --version : Show version info for pacget, pacaur and pacman
See pacaur(8) (man pacaur ) for more details on pacaur options.