How to install and upgrade packages on Arch Linux

Arch Linux uses a package manager called pacman, as you may know this is pretty standard on any linux distro, however, I’ve seen that not all the people use the same way to install or upgrade packages. The simpler way you can install a package with pacman is: pacman -S package_name But, this will only install the package on your system and nothing else. You may say but that’s what I want basically, but due to the rolling release nature and since partial upgrades are not supported on Arch Linux this might not be the best approach in the long term and could even break your system....

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · Elvin Guti