cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/3418985

I recently got into Arch Linux via EndeavourOS. I’m trying to find a way to remember all the Pacman and Yay commands, but I’m not able to find a good approach to remembering most of the commands.

Does anybody have any mnemonics to help with this? For example, how did you remember that Yay -Yc was the command to remove all unneeded dependencies?

  • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I just look it up every time, I don’t remove packages often. Also yay can usually figure out pacman flags when you use them with it

  • Vegoon@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    According to the manpage --Yay --clean is the thought behind it, its a Yay specific shortcut for pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt) Remove recursive what the Query quiet (short names) on the database lists as unrequired t

    Now -Yc does not sound that bad.

    It is still good to learn the verbose commands for pacman/paru/yay from the manpages, once you are familiar with them its easy to build more advanced commands for special use-cases.

  • Solumbran@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just use pamac. Almost never have to use pacman directly, except if somehow something broke with pamac, which is rare.