An Introduction on Arch Linux Pacman for Beginners

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This article is a beginner introduction to Arch Linux’s pacman. Package manager is one of the distinguishing features of Arch Linux. A package manager's goal is to make it possible to easily install, update and remove packages. The -S really means synchronise, so the command above to install a new package is also the same command to upgrade an already installed single package. You can read more about pacman from the [wiki] on the [wikileaks] page about how to use it.