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 shortcode/longcode	Description
pacman -S package	shelly -Is package shelly install standard package	(Re)Install a package
pacman -Syu	shelly -Us shelly upgrade standard	Update packages from configured repos
pacman -Syu package	shelly -Isu package shelly install standard --upgrade package	Install a package and do a system update
n/a	shelly -Px shelly list-updates all	Show available updates
pacman -U URL	shelly -Is URL shelly install standard URL	Download and install a .pkg.tar.zst package from the internet

Search or information

pacman/related	shelly shortcode/longcode	Description
pacman -Ss <string>	shelly -Ssv package shelly search standard --available <string>	Search configured repos for a package containing <string> in the name, description, or group
pacman -Si package	shelly -Ssvd package shelly search standard --available --detail package	Get detailed information about a package in configured repos
pacman -Qs <string>	shelly -Ssi <string> shelly search standard --installed <string>	Search locally installed package names
pacman -Qi package	shelly -Ssd package shelly search standard --installed --detail package	Get detailed information for a locally installed package
yay -Ss <string>	shelly -Ssav <string>	Search for a package in configured repos and the AUR
yay -Si package	shelly -Sad package shelly search aur --detail package	Get detailed information about a package in configured repos or the AUR
pacman -Qm	shelly -La shelly list aur	List packages installed from the AUR.
pacman -Qe package	shelly -Sse shelly search standard --explicit	List all explicitly installed packages. This is primarily used for package list backup purposes like with pacman -Qqe, but shelly backup covers that
yay -Pw	shelly -N shelly news	Find unread Arch Linux news

Remove

pacman	shelly shortcode/longcode	Description
pacman -R package	shelly -Rs --no-cascade package shelly remove standard --no-cascade package	Remove a single package, leaving all of its dependencies installed
pacman -Rs package	shelly -Rs package shelly remove standard package	Remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package
n/a	shelly -Rso package shelly remove standard --opt-deps	Remove a package, its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package, and also optional dependencies installed with package
pacman -Rsc package	shelly -Rsi package shelly remove standard --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 -Rsf package shelly remove standard --force package	Remove a package, skipping any dependency checks. This can break your system. Only run if advanced user or directed by support
pacman -Sc	shelly -Zsc [<number>] shelly purify standard --cache [<number>]	Clean the local package cache, keeping <number> versions. 3 versions are kept if no number specified.
pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -	shelly -Zso shelly purify standard --orphans	Remove packages that were installed as a dependency and are no longer required by any package, aka orphans

Downgrading

pacman/related	shelly shortcode/longcode	Description
downgrade package	shelly -Di package shelly downgrade --ignore package	Revert a package you have installed to an earlier cached version or cachy repo version if available and also add it to the ignore list