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bademeister

Member

From: PB, Germany

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 9

Pacman database

Hi,

the wiki told me, that Pacman use a database.
I found the downloaded packages, but:

1. Where are the database for available packages to install
from current, extra, unstable and testing ?

2. Is the database only a text file with all kind of packages ?

3. And how compare Pacman installad packages with available
packages from servers if i update my system, write Pacman
every installed package in a file  ?

4. If yes to point 3, where is the package file of installed packages ?

Thank you and

best regards

bademeister

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Pacman database

Have a look in /var/lib/pacman. 'local' represents your installed packages - the others are the packages available in the repos.