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 -----------
 Pacman is a package management utility that tracks installed packages on a Linux
 system. It features dependency support, package groups, install and uninstall
-hooks, and the ability to sync your local machine with a remote repository to
+scripts, and the ability to sync your local machine with a remote repository to
 automatically upgrade packages. Pacman packages are a zipped tar format.
 
 Since version 3.0.0, pacman has been the front-end to linkman:libalpm[3], the