Thanks for the tip. Just installed bauh and Its a nice replacement to pamac for me. The app icon is ugly though… LOL
At least THAT can be changed out - if you can find one you like!
With tkpacman, welcome back to an UI compatible with MS-Windows 95.
No notification tray, ugly UI… And the worst advice you can give, downgrading pacman, quoting RebornOS post:
I forgot to add another lacking feature: no AUR support whatsoever.
What a powerful replacement for pamac-aur… Or not!
And of course, no translations available… English for everyone… Isn’t computing only in english after all? 
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Well this is a TEMPORARY advice and I personally use it.
Because it is not known how long you will be fixing your Pamac 
This is the TCL-TK interface and it is not necessary to compare it with the GTK.
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This version has everything, and the AUR too.
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Well, not mine.
Here is the yay -Qi tkpacman output:
~ yay -Qi tkpacman
Name : tkpacman
Version : 1.9.1-2
Description : A lightweight GUI for pacman built with Tcl/Tk
Architecture : any
URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkpacman
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : tcl>=8.6.0 tk>=8.6.0
Optional Deps : sudo: if you want to use sudo instead of su [installed]
kdesu: if you want to use kdesu instead of su or sudo
xterm: alternative terminal emulator
vte3: alternative terminal emulator [installed]
xfce4-terminal: alternative terminal emulator
mate-terminal: alternative terminal emulator
konsole: alternative terminal emulator
qterminal: alternative terminal emulator
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 216.87 KiB
Packager : Unknown Packager
Build Date : Thu Jun 3 09:01:54 2021
Install Date : Thu Jun 3 09:02:38 2021
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : None
There is no support for AUR here. Just tell me how you have it…
- It is not my pamac, it is a pamac port to Archlinux.
- TK is an outdated - graphically speaking - widget.
- I don’t want to go back - graphically speaking - to MS-Windows 95.
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very true TK is so 90ies
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- That’s right, but Manjaro is in no hurry and won’t fix it for Arch’s sake
- Correct, but this is a temporary replacement for gui pacman, until the developer deigns
- And I don’t want to have an ugly gui Pamac, that’s why I use Pamac-classic, which is generally unknown when it will be repaired
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This is different - vPacman
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Hard to argue with that. 
It is true that manjaro unstable is not a copy (in some ways) to archlinux stable repository.
Until pamac developer got time to work on libalpm 13 port, pacman will be hold by manjaro team.
Once again, it depends on pamac developer spare time.
The old artix version which is broken with pacman 6.0: https://git.cromer.cl/cromer/pamac-classic/issues/9
So…
You talked about tkpacman and you put screenshots from another tool… Well, this is strange.
Secrets … 
When I first pulled up tkpacman on KDE, I think I screamed a little. No one wants MS Window$ 95 on their screen.
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Well, octopi is not for GTK based environment. And pamac is a one developer project. I’ll wait for a GTK compatible GUI package manager. Until them, I will do a yay -Syyu every 6 hours or so.
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Or you could do a yay -Sua for just the AUR stuff, and pacman -Syu for the repos… Or - just yay to get it all with minimal typing! 
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Yea, i was gonna say, plain old yay works just fine for me!