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Mnemonics for Yay and Pacman commands (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago by heygooberman@lemmy.today to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

I read the man page and used --help more than I could remember, now the stuff I use stuck with me. Base pacman commands are actually named and shortened pretty intuitively. I only use AUR helpers for exactly that, so I pretty much don't use all the extra functionality.