Locate the pacman package manager to put it in the PATH

Drosera_capensis · 11-02-2023, 11:43 AM

Hello everyone,

I have just installed the pacman package manager with:

Code:

sudo apt install pacman-package-manager

But when using command line to call pacman, I got this result:

Code:

pacman -Syu
bash: /usr/games/pacman: No such file or directory

I think it might be that a game with the same name was installed, and I should change the path to call the package manager and not the game.

Unfortunately I do not know where is the package manager. Could you help me to locate it?

lvm_ · 11-02-2023, 12:43 PM

You can use 'dpkg -L <package name>' to list files installed from a debian package, however it is probably already in the path: this 'bash: /usr/games/pacman: No such file or directory' message with explicit path indicates that you had a file named pacman installed and its location was cached by bash. If you run 'hash -d pacman' to remove the old entry bash will probably find pacman by itself.

jkirchner · 11-02-2023, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drosera_capensis

Hello everyone,

I have just installed the pacman package manager with:

Code:

sudo apt install pacman-package-manager

But when using command line to call pacman, I got this result:

Code:

pacman -Syu
bash: /usr/games/pacman: No such file or directory

I think it might be that a game with the same name was installed, and I should change the path to call the package manager and not the game.

Unfortunately I do not know where is the package manager. Could you help me to locate it?

I am curious as to why you want to use Arch Linux's package manager in Ubuntu. If you are dissatisfied with the Ubuntu Store you can download synaptic package manager.