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Pacman is the official software package manager for the Linux distribution Arch Linux. Pacman was developed by Arch Linux creator, Judd Vinet. Pacman is capable of resolving dependencies and automatically downloading and installing all necessary packages. In theory, a user need only run a single command to completely update the system.
Mechanism Pacman uses compressed tar archives for all of the packages, each of which contains compiled binaries. Packages are downloaded via FTP from a certain mirror. Pacman complements the Arch Linux Build System (ABS) used to create packages from source. Aims Following the Arch Linux philosophy, Pacman aims to be a powerful package management system that is easy to learn. Users of Pacman | ||||||||
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