Best GUI for pacman?

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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I removed my Manjaro install …

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I use Plasma, but I always use pamac-aur-git (gtk3) and pamac-aur-tray-appindicator-git. Both work perfectly. Just make your selected options in the preferences, ie including AUR or not, etc, and good to go.

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I dont know. In the year i’v been using EOS, I got so used to the terminal, it seems slightly absurd to have a GUI to it.

Why strugle to install a breaking apart GUI while it’s so easy to maintain it from terminal?

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I really don’t like trying to remember strings of code. Some people just aren’t built for it. One thing Apple does (or did) do right is their macOS GUI.

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For me best GUI for pacman is pamac! :space_invader:

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Tjeezus, even MAC people can do this.

It’s usually just an update.

yay -Syu

…and that’s it.

BTW UNIX and Linux are very much alike, if you scratched under the hood of a Mac.

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And I missed some happy emojies. I did not mean to be that harsh. :upside_down_face:

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It’s been working really well lately for me too.

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alias is your friend… :grin:

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It’s less about the installation itself than it is about having a catalog where you can search for specific software whose exact name you may not know. I’ve been installing with Pacman forever, but I know the exact names of the programs I need.

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Exactly! Well said. Plus some have multiple AUR maintainers, versions. I can instantly check in the GUI when the last update was performed, how old the version is, etc, at a glance.

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And here’s a handy thread you can steal some good ones from :wink:

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I kept it on one of my laptops. We’ll see what happens next.

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I also prefer these because they are well optimized for KDE as well.

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if you have installed endeavouros … open terminal and type ; pcurses and let the magic begins :slight_smile:

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but thats not a pacman-gui :wink: pamac tend to be the next package manager also for cli for manjaro. while pacman is merged in pacman-contrib means in period of time people has to install those until it get removed… pamac is stil in beta phase as replace pacman completly. but basicly you have to use what you use best ;à

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I prefer Octopi for searching packages and looking at package info. Octopi uses alpm for most tasks but always uses pacman for installation/removal. It even has a “Run in terminal” option for performing the requested operations in a terminal window.

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I believe you can select also. From origine in arch it uses pacman sinds manjaro is working on libalmp ,octopi also did this way.

Further is a great packagemanager… on bsd: octopkg …

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Octopi’s two options are “alpm+pacman” or just pacman. It supports alpm for read-only operations. Pacman is always used for making changes. I read that on octopi’s homepage.

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And if this is too hard to remember, just do…

yay

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