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pacman - Package Management Utility

               by Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
               <http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/>

DESCRIPTION: pacman is a utility which manages software packages in Linux. It uses simple .tar.gz files as a package format, and maintains a text-based package database (more of a hierarchy), just in case some hand tweaking is necessary.

pacman does not strive to "do everything." It will add, remove and upgrade packages in the system, and it will allow you to query the package database for installed packages, files and owners. It also attempts to handle dependencies automatically and can download packages from a remote server.

Although the package manager itself is quite simple, the pacman tarball also comes with scripts that help automate building and installing packages. These are used extensively in the Arch Build System (ABS), used in Arch Linux <http://www.archlinux.org>.

As of version 2.0, pacman can also keep your system's packages in sync with a master server. You can follow CURRENT and STABLE trees, or lock yourself into a specific version. See the pacman manpage for more info on this (--sync operation).

INSTALL: $ ./configure $ make # make install

If your man files are located in a directory other than /usr/man, you may want to edit Makefile and modify the MANDIR line accordingly.

Note: Since pacman is compiled statically, you will need the static libraries

for libtar, glibc and zlib.

BUGS: If you find bugs (which is quite likely), please submit them to <jvinet@zeroflux.org> with specific information such as your commandline, the nature of the bug, and even the package database if it helps.
COPYRIGHT: pacman is Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org> and is licensed through the GNU General Public License (see COPYING).