From 7edc88e6c3366f3b0033604bcb15f164a7b48d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TiynGER Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 19:14:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] archlinux: add package managers --- wiki/linux/arch-linux/package-manager.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wiki/linux/arch-linux/package-manager.md diff --git a/wiki/linux/arch-linux/package-manager.md b/wiki/linux/arch-linux/package-manager.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73caee7 --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/linux/arch-linux/package-manager.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# Package Manager + +Package managers are important programs to get software onto your system. +In Arch Linux there are 2 main package managers. +One is `pacman`, the default package manager. +But there are also a bunch other managers for the Arch User Repositories (AUR). + +In this article I'll use `yay` as my go to AUR manager. +`yay` is also a wrapper for `pacman` so you can just use `yay` instead of pacman +to install programs. + +## Bugfixes + +### Error while importing keys + +Both `yay` and `pacman` use gpg keys to confirm the package manager gets the +right package. +It is possible that it runs into errors when importing new keys. +If this happens you should try to restart your gpg key server with +`gpgconf --kill all`.