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?

  • meow
    12•11 months ago

    pacman -Qi is the correct tool for this job.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Ah, it worked. I thought Qi only works for packages that are already installed. Didn’t knew it worked for things that are synced as a new dependency of a package

      • meow
        4•11 months ago

        Dependencies are installed, they’re just installed as dependencies lol

  • @[email protected]
    8•11 months ago

    I believe Pacman -Si or -Sii [package name] is what you are looking for.

    -Sii is reverse dependencies iirc

    • Victor
      2•11 months ago

      From the pacman man page:

         -i, --info
       Display information on a
       given sync database package.
       Passing two --info or -i
       flags will also display
       those packages in all
       repositories that depend on
       this package.
    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Oh, I didn’t knew you can pass 2 is. I was depending on the tab completion from pacman, but I didn’t see that it says you could specify i’s