Install individual packages via GUI

General system EndeavourOS installation
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personally, I knew the maintainer of the package git

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If you need a gui to browse, pkgbrowser is excellent :grin:

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Thatā€™s a good enough reason :grinning:

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yep Iā€™ll just stick with the aur version

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I prefer the swiss army knife approach of pamac though personally as pkgbrowser only browses (plus its kind of not been active for a while)

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yeah but pkgbrowser only as for browsing, mayby it need more browsing features for sureā€¦ as for browsing and using yay afterwards is for me ok.

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Iā€™m sometimes using pamac-aur, and it is good for small work, e.g. to check some small thing.
But if you use it for a bit longer time, it starts lagging and later it simply stops working (or at least seems that way).
So it has its problems currently. Maybe they will be solved, maybe not.

In my mind this lagging is one of good enough reasons to make it a no-go for EndeavourOS for now.

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Itā€™s a good tool for searching, comparing dependencies (if you want to keep your install lean, find two more or less similar apps, it might come down to comparing dependencies).

It is also good for cleaning your system. As far as I KNOW, yay -Sc deletes ALL cached packages, while you can set Pamac to say leave the latest three (default setting) versions, so two backups, if you need to revert a package. Now I have never been in a situation where I need more than one backup, so I tend to lower that number.

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I installed my EndeavourOS from the first beta meaning I pretty much built my desktop from scratch. I originally manually compiled a beta pamac from a zip file I found online. When I realized that pacman was never going to update this I replaced it with pamac-aur-git because that was all I could find in the repositories at the time. Seems to work just fine.

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A command line tool paccache can also remove cached packages. You can give options, e.g. how many to keep. See: man paccache

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Interesting. How does it work with yay installs?

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Depends on if the stuff is from AUR or not. Doesnā€™t work for AUR packages.

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Thatā€™s what I meant. So still manually clean that.

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i will keep an eye on it, got a paccache hook, it removes some oldest automatical

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Page not found, I would really love to read this.

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Try this:
https://endeavouros.com/uncategorized/second-week-after-the-stable-release/

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Thank you :vulcan_salute:

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