Package Manager Reference

System Agnostic

Nix

Installation of Nix

Installation for multi-user.

$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

Search for available packages

$ nix-env --query --available --attr-path

Installing packages from the channel

1. Installing the package

   $ nix-env --install --attr nixpkgs.firefox

2. Testing whether packages work

   $ which firefox
   /home/user/.nix-profile/bin/firefox

Uninstalling a package

$ nix-env --uninstall firefox

Updating channel

$ nix-channel --update nixpkgs

Updating packages

$ nix-env --upgrade '*'

Arch

Pacman

Note

Pacman package manager is preinstalled on every arch-based distribution

Installing packages

$ sudo pacman -S firefox

Updating system and packages

$ sudo pacman -Syu

Uninstalling packages

$ sudo pacman -R firefox

yay

Installing yay

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
$ cd yay-bin
$ makepkg -si

or, if you want to do this all by once:

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si

Installing packages

$ yay -S firefox

Updating packages

$ yay

Uninstalling packages

$ yay -R firefox

Debian/Ubuntu