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Add pacman to Linux package manager lessions
Seeing that Manjaro (number 2 on DistroWatch) and Antergos (number 5) are both very popular distros, Arch itself being very prominent (number 13) it would make sense to include more than Debian/RedHat package management systems to the course.
Good idea. Objective to tie to this content:
- Install an alternate package manager on Linux to manage installed packages
@AGitBoy can you recommend any "further reading" resources you like for installing these? Something you'd send to someone who had never installed another package manager before, eg a tutorial or article discussing why you'd use these over apt-get and brew, since if you don't read DistroWatch, you probably wouldn't know why to use a different one.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/ Good resource for all things Arch(the Pacman specific page is here)
For the installation, it should be included in any Arch Linux based distros. And Arch itself of course. Since it is a separate system from Brew, Apt, or Rpm, it has differing repositories.
As for why you would want to use this over other package managers, this page explains the differences in various distros (and their package managers) and Arch (and it's package manager).