[Solved] How to know why a package is being updated/installed
[Solved] How to know why a package is being updated/installed
Hey, sometimes when I do pacman -Syu, I see some weird package being installed and I am curious which explicitly installed package is installing/updating it.
How do I so with pacman?
I know we can easily find out why an installed package is being installed, but what about before the package is being installed?
pacman -Qiis the correct tool for this job.Ah, it worked. I thought
Qionly works for packages that are already installed. Didn't knew it worked for things that are synced as a new dependency of a packageDependencies are installed, they're just installed as dependencies lol
I believe Pacman -Si or -Sii [package name] is what you are looking for.
-Sii is reverse dependencies iirc
also
pactree [-r]would be quite usefulFrom the pacman man page:
-i, --info Display information on a given sync database package. Passing two --info or -i flags will also display those packages in all repositories that depend on this package.Oh, I didn't knew you can pass 2
is. I was depending on the tab completion frompacman, but I didn't see that it says you could specifyi's