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?
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:
Oh, I didn’t knew you can pass 2
i
s. I was depending on the tab completion frompacman
, but I didn’t see that it says you could specifyi
’s