PACLOG-PKGLIST(8)

📦 version 1.13.1, in arch rolling

💅 PACLOG-PKGLIST(8) — the pacman-contrib manual, bestie edition

okay so you're reading the pacman-contrib manual, specifically the page for paclog-pkglist — and honestly? it's a little icon of a tool. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

paclog-pkglist — literally just lists the packages you currently have installed, and it figures them out by reading pacman's log. that's the whole vibe. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

paclog-pkglist [path to pacman log]

one optional argument, and it's a path. that's the entire syllabus. slay. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: paclog-pkglist will parse a log file into a list of currently installed packages. it reads the log, does its little detective work, and hands you back the receipts — who's installed right now. 🕵️‍♀️💅

example, for the visual learners:

paclog-pkglist /var/log/pacman.log

and if you don't give it a path at all? no worries, bestie — it defaults to /var/log/pacman.log. it knows where home is. 🏠💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — displays the syntax and the command-line options. your "wait what does this do again" button. 🫶
  • -V, --version — displays version information. iconic little flex. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • pacman(8) — the main character, honestly. go check it out. ⭐

💀 BUGS 💀

Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software.

that's the energy, and we're keeping it. fr fr. 😭

but if we happen to be wrong (and, like, unlikely but not impossible), file an issue with as much detail as possible at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman-contrib/-/issues/new. give us the whole story — the plot, the subplot, the timestamps. the more detail the better, no cap. 🍓

👑 AUTHORS 👑

current maintainers, the ones holding it down:

  • Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
  • Daniel M. Capella <polyzen@archlinux.org>

for additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman-contrib.git repository — that's how you find the whole group chat of people who chipped in. 🧚💜

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and that's the page!! this lil rewrite comes to you from Pacman-contrib 1.13.1, dated 2025-12-11 💖 thanks for reading bestie, now go list some packages ✨🎀

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