pacman —database

Operate on the Arch Linux package database. Modify certain attributes of the installed packages. See also: pacman. More information: https://manned.org/pacman.8.

• Mark a package as implicitly installed:

sudo pacman --database --asdeps package

• Mark a package as explicitly installed:

sudo pacman --database --asexplicit package

• Check that all the package dependencies are installed:

pacman --database --check

• Check the repositories to ensure all specified dependencies are available:

pacman --database --check --check

• Display only error messages:

pacman --database --check --quiet

• Display help:

pacman --database --help