pacman is Arch Linux's package manager, and for msys2 it appears to be a port: http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Contributing%20to%20MSYS2/
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:18 AM C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:06:58AM -0700, Steven Haddock wrote: > > We just finished a 2-week workshop and although we did have some > problems with MSYS2, nano was not one of them. After some updates, we used > the `pacman` installer with this command and it worked fine.. > > > > pacman -S gcc python2 man nano sqlite vim git bc tar > > > > Rudimentary instructions (not super robust!) are here in the brown box: > > > > http://practicalcomputing.org/setup > > Hi Steve, > > I've never heard of the pacman installer for Windows before, and Google > gives > little in the way of insight. I gather it's part of msys2, but I'm having > a hard time finding background and details on that, too. What's the > history? > Is there a community here? Any info appreciated :) > > thanks, > --titus > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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