Troubleshooting
Sometimes installing the packages with pacman we face some errors. Following are the mainly occurred errors with pacman:
- Conflicting file error: This error occurs due to some conflict packages present in the repository. To solve this error we can manually rename the file or force the overwrite function. We can use the following command to overwrite the function:
pacman -S --overwrite glob package
- Invalid package: This error can occur due to the partial installation of the packages. We can solve this error by deleting .part files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/.
- Locking database: This error can occur when pacman is interrupted while updating the database. To solve this error, delete the file /var/lib/pacman/db.lock and update the database. Use the following command to delete the file:
rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lock
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.