How to add color to the Pacman Package Manager

Pacman is the workhorse of Arch Linux. A very powerful, fast package manager and once you try it, it's hard not to get fond of it.

The problem is that by default, when we use Pacman It is very difficult for us to read the output of the actions we carry out. For example, let's say I want to search for all packages related to libreoffice. I open a terminal and put:

$ sudo pacman -Ss libreoffice

Which returns something like this:

As you can see, very difficult to understand what the package is or its description. Formerly we installed a package called pacman-color, but this is no longer necessary.

All we have to do is edit the file /etc/pacman.conf and look for the line that says:

#Color

And of course, uncomment it (removing the #). We save and that's it, it's that simple. We can do that Pacman looks like this:

I honestly think that this option should be activated by default, but hey ..