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cdist-type__package_pacman(7)

cdist-type__package_pacman7

Manage packages with pacman

Overview

Pacman is usually used on the Archlinux distribution to manage packages.

Required parameters

None

Optional parameters

name

If supplied, use the name and not the object id as the package name.

state

Either "present" or "absent", defaults to "present"

Examples

# Ensure zsh in installed
__package_pacman zsh --state present
# If you don't want to follow pythonX packages, but always use python
__package_pacman python --state present --name python2
# Remove obsolete package
__package_pacman puppet --state absent

Copying

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

Authors

Nico Schottelius <[email protected]>

From cdist 7.0.0-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.