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How to show all installed packages with pacman

How to show all installed packages with pacman?

Run pacman using the --query option.

pacman --query

To see all installed packages on systems like Arch Linux, run the pacman command with the --query option.

a52dec 0.8.0-2
aalib 1.4rc5-18
abseil-cpp 20240116.2-2
accountsservice 23.13.9-2
acl 2.3.2-1
acpi 1.7-3
acpid 2.0.34-1
..snip..
zstd 1.5.6-1
zvbi 0.2.42-1
zxing-cpp 2.2.1-1

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