How to manage packages using Pacman in Arch Linux

Posted on March 6th, 2008 in Arch by admin

Pacman is the default package manager for Arch Linux. Pacman uses tarballs (.tar) packages as a software source. Those packages are built to be compatible with Arch Linux Build System (ABS). Pacman repositories do not have as many packages as repositories of the most popular distributions (like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedoram or Suse).