Shelly Rosetta

Shelly Rosetta is a reference for pacman commands and their equivalent Shelly commands. It is intended to help users who are familiar with pacman to transition to Shelly.

Install or update

pacman	shelly (short/long)	Description
pacman -S package	shelly -SI package shelly install package	(Re)Install a package
pacman -Syu	shelly -SU or shelly shelly upgrade	Perform a system update
pacman -Syu package	shelly -SIu package shelly install --upgrade package	Install a package and do a system update
n/a	shelly -UK shelly check-updates	Check for updates
pacman -U URL	shelly -SI URL shelly install URL	Download and install a .pkg.tar.zst package from the internet

Search or information

pacman/related	shelly (short/long)	Description
pacman -Ss package	shelly -SQa package shelly query --available package	Search the arch/cachy repos
pacman -Si package	shelly -SQad package shelly query --available --detail package	Get detailed information about a package in the arch/cachy repos
pacman -Qs package	shelly -SQi package shelly query --installed package	Search locally installed package names
pacman -Qi package	shelly -SQ package shelly query --installed --detail package	Get detailed information for a locally installed package
yay -Ss package	shelly -ASs package shelly aur search --standard package	Search for a package in the standard repos and AUR alias dat-ass="shelly -ASs"
yay -Si package	shelly -ASd package shelly aur search --detail package	Get detailed information about a package in the AUR
pacman -Qm	shelly -AL shelly aur list	List packages installed from the AUR.
pacman -Qe package	n/a	List all explicitly installed packages. This is primarily used for package list backup purposes like with pacman -Qqe, but shelly export covers that

Remove

pacman	shelly (short/long)	Description
pacman -R package	shelly -SR package shelly remove package	Remove a single package, leaving all of its dependencies installed
pacman -Rs package	shelly -SR package shelly remove --cascade package	Remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package
pacman -Rsc package	shelly -SRi package shelly remove --cascade --ripple	Remove a package, its dependencies and all the packages that depend on the target package. Be very careful running this
pacman -Rdd package	shelly -SRf shelly remove --force	Remove a package, skipping any dependency checks. This can break your system. Only run if advanced user or directed by support
pacman -Sc	shelly -UCi shelly cache-clean --uninstalled	Clean the local package cache of uninstalled packages
pacman -Scc	shelly -UCk 0 shelly cache-clean --keep 0	Clean the local package cache of all packages
pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -	shelly -SPo shelly purify --orphans	Remove packages that were installed as a dependency and are no longer required by any package, aka orphans

Downgrading

pacman/related	shelly (short/long)	Description
downgrade package	shelly -SD package shelly downgrade package	Revert a package you have installed to an earlier cached version or cachy repo version if available.