Eos-packagelist for i3wm?

General system EndeavourOS installation
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Hi!

I love eos-packagelist, but it doesnt seem to have i3wm option

Any reason?

I did find these though

https://github.com/endeavouros-team/EndeavourOS-packages-lists/blob/master/i3

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endeavouros-team/EndeavourOS-packages-lists/master/i3

[leigh@EOS ~]$ eos-packagelist --list
Desktop-Base + Common packages
EndeavourOS applications
Recommended applications selection
Firefox and language package
Spell Checker and language package
Firewall
LTS kernel in addition
Printing support
HP printer/scanner support
KDE-Desktop
GNOME-Desktop
XFCE4-Desktop
Cinnamon-Desktop
COSMIC-Desktop
Budgie-Desktop
LXQT-Desktop
Sway-Window-Manager
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this the list the list you after?

Might not be right but yer check it out, i3 can easily be installed alongside a lot of DEs, just take note of changes on either side, most people run 1 thing not multiple things like this.
For example I have KDE installed on this device for a while now but aslo have openbox sitting there if I need it. I may not be explaining right but basically when I install a system I relu on it, but because I understand bugs creep through I have this a JIC (Just in case) so I can a least login and use my system and easily access my system, been years since Ineeded to though.

Ignore that it just me working throught the question and let me ask, are you trying to install alongside or replace?

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Any reason why i3wm not included in eos-packagelist?

I only use i3

I am rewriting a simple wrapper script that I did to customise a new ArchBang installation to my old ArchLabs setup to be used with EOS i3 installation

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I don’t know what is the command you are using, have you checked out what/where the script is doing installing?

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I install normally using calamares then run my script to tweak my installation

eos-packagelist is just a nice thing to get the list of packages installed with EOS i3 for when I am modifying my script

I can easily use the other lists on the EOS github pages, but it would be nice to have them in eos-packagelist

I just wondered why they are not there

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Just to check (you probably are) but what is the exact prompt you are putting into the terminal?
As I linked the list is there so wondering what link eos-packiglist is looking for - is it only failing here?
(Wish I could run a vm to check stuff)

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this one

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yer I linked the same thing which is why I asked what prompt is being used

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Sorry about that and I think this is all that can be found as far as I know (that is probably why it is not listed), anyway I tried to install a package that was listed , and the installer started to do it’s thing , but I did not need the package so i was just hitting the N key to stop it.

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Yer if I could run a VM i would check but I have a feeling OP is making a typo since both of us can reach the list

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I found them too

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Can you reach the i3 list from the eos-packagelist command?

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If I try this

sudo eos-packagelist --install "i3-Window-Manager"

This is the result

No profile found matching: i3-Window-Manager

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no I can;t actually, just tried, what I would suggest now is to copy the list and install it yourself (there is a way to do this but I can’t think of it) where[acman can install from a file listing what you want) try in a vm first and confirm or wait for someone with a better answr

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Yer that is what I got even though the link exists to the package list, perhaps a typo in what is being called from eos-packagelist?
(Spitballing)

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And maybe just thinking aloud a change in a packages name?

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I will just use the online list to see what I need to install on top for my setup

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Umm not a solution, pleae don’t mark posts that don’t solve issues as such

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Well I think because it is not listed , might be the reason that you can not install it , strange thing though id i look at the profiles file at
/etc/eos-packagelist.profiles
This is the list I get.

Budgie-Desktop
Cinnamon-Desktop
Desktop-Base + Common packages
EndeavourOS applications
Firefox and language package
Firewall
GNOME-Desktop
HP printer/scanner support
KDE-Desktop
LTS kernel in addition
LXDE-Desktop
LXQT-Desktop
MATE-Desktop
Printing support
Recommended applications selection
Spell Checker and language package
XFCE4-Desktop
i3-Window-Manager

But I also wonder how useful this list is, if you want to use it for another Distro, because there are some EOS specific packages in there

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What I would try now I have looked properly (didn’t take me long so yer not sure i3 for you if you can’t do 1 minute research) is

sudo pacman -S --needed - < pkglist.txt

add the files from i3 list to this file or download and replace pkglist.txt with whatever it called
Check that files are in official repos otherwise use yay or similar
Would really suggest to do this in a VM first if possibel