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pacinfo — Display information about installed packages. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pa

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Problem

How to use the pacinfo command: Display information about installed packages. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacinfo.pod>.

Solution

pacinfo — Display information about installed packages. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacinfo.pod>.

Display information about a specific package:

pacinfo {{package_name}}

Disable low-speed timeouts for downloads:

pacinfo --no-timeout {{package_name}}

Display sizes in bytes and date values as Unix timestamps:

pacinfo --raw {{package_name}}

Display additional package information:

pacinfo --verbose {{package_name}}

Display help:

pacinfo --help

Display version:

pacinfo --version

Code Snippets

Display information about a specific package

pacinfo {{package_name}}

Disable low-speed timeouts for downloads

pacinfo --no-timeout {{package_name}}

Display sizes in bytes and date values as Unix timestamps

pacinfo --raw {{package_name}}

Display additional package information

pacinfo --verbose {{package_name}}

Display help

pacinfo --help

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pacinfo

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