I have a package that's installed on my PC as an dependency to another package.
I would like to have the package explicitly installed, but without actually re-installing it, or downloading any files.
Is this possible?
update:
I do not have any packages cached in /var/cache/pacman/pkg
, which is one of the reasons I want to change the package detail without a re-install.
Even If I had the packages cached, running pacman -S would mean the whole install proccess is run, which I also want to avoid.
Best Answer
I found the answer on Arch Linux Forums
Since pacman 3.4 you can use
to modify only the database. So:
will make
<pkgs>
explicitly installed.The
pacman
manpage further describes this command.