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Use the following command to trace a file back to its owning package: You can use pactree to figure out which packages are needed to make a package working properly:ĭescription : GNU internationalization library (mingw-w64)ĭepends On : mingw-w64-x86_64-expat mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs Pacman -U Finding dependencies of a package Once downloaded, the package can be installed like this: The data store for the repositories contains older versions of packages, but beware that you might need to recursively find correct versions of dependencies for the desired package.

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Older (or pre-release) versions of packages can be installed directly from the package archive (. Pacman -R Installing a specific version of a package or a stand-alone packages The following command will remove a package (but not its dependencies nor any files produced by running it): Please note that neither of those are real packages, so the commands below won't accept these names and you need to use the real package names instead.

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install base-devel to get basic development tools. Package groups simplify installation of related packages, e.g.

msys2-launcher-git can be installed by requesting msys-launcher. Virtual package names can be often encountered with packages built from Git, e.g. Pacman -S also accepts virtual package names and package group names. If the package has dependencies which are not installed, pacman will ask you whether you would like to install the dependencies in the first place. If you want to install a package, use the following command: If you would like to search only among the packages which has been already installed, use the following command:

Mingw32 / mingw - w64 - i686 - openjpeg 1.5.2 - 7 An open source JPEG 2000 codec ( mingw - w64 ) mingw32 / mingw - w64 - i686 - openjpeg2 2.1.0 - 7 An open source JPEG 2000 codec ( mingw - w64 ) mingw64 / mingw - w64 - x86_64 - openjpeg 1.5.2 - 7 An open source JPEG 2000 codec ( mingw - w64 ) mingw64 / mingw - w64 - x86_64 - openjpeg2 2.1.0 - 7 An open source JPEG 2000 codec ( mingw - w64 )Īs you can see the mingw-w64-x86_64-openjpeg2 package is installed, while the mingw-w64-x86_64-openjpeg package is not installed. If you want to find a specific package in the repository (and that package can or cannot be installed on your machine) you can use the following command: The packages in msys2 are named just like on a Linux distribution, the packages in the others are prefixed by either mingw-w64-i686- for 32-bit packages, or mingw-w64-x86_64- for 64-bit packages with a secondary prefix clang or ucrt where applicable.įor more details about those see 'Environments' and ' Package Naming'. There are 6 package repositories, the 'classical' ones msys2, mingw32, and mingw64 and the newer ucrt64, clang32, and clang64. Upon installation, the files contained are extracted into your MSYS2 installation directory and the metadata are stored in a local database.

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Packages also contain metadata, such as the software's name, description of its purpose, version number, vendor, checksum, and a list of dependencies necessary for the software to run properly.

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This normally means executable files, runtime libraries, data, shared and static link libraries, header files, config files, and manual pages. A package is an archive containing a piece of software. Packages in MSYS2 work like packages in popular Linux distributions. The MSYS2 software distribution uses a port of pacman (known from Arch Linux) to manage (install, remove and update) binary packages and also to build those packages in the first place. Installing a specific version of a package or a stand-alone packagesįinding out which package a file belongs toįinding which package will install the file you need

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