Manjaro Download Package and Dependencies Guide

Downloading with Pacman

2. 2. Looking up Dependencies

   First, to Find out Package’s Dependencies
   First, install the need Tool:

   sudo pacman -Sy expac

   And then get the Dependencie List:

   expac -S '%r/%n: %D' [MYCOOLPACK]

   So for example:

   expac -S '%r/%n: %D' dkms

   You can simply Copy the list to use on the Next Command…

3. 3. Downloading Package

   Now to Download Package and Dependencies
   First, in case make a Target Directory:

   mkdir ~/Downloads/packages

   And Change to it:

   cd ~/Downloads/packages

   Then to Download a Package with Dependencies use:

   sudo pacman -Sw --cachedir ./ [MYCOOLPACKS]

   So for instance:

   sudo pacman -Sw --cachedir ./ bash  kmod  gcc  make  patch