Is gnome-software working?

[4p1C]

Hi there,
I’m on a fresh installed one. I’ve installed gnome-software to ease the user experience but, when I start it, it seems like it can’t use my repositories. Indeed, the explorer tab has no packages enlisted.
I wonder if it still works with pacman backend. Any idea on how to make it work?

[pebcak]

Please see these two posts for what you need to get gnome-software working and also for why you probably shouldn’t and what you can use instead if you really need a package manager with GUI:

Gnome Software use?

Hi and welcome to EnOS’ forum @wove! Install packagekit and gnome-software-packagekit-plugin: sudo pacman -Syu packagekit gnome-software-packagekit-plugin Reboot and launch gnome-software. HTH

Gnome Software use?

Please don’t do this. While it technically works, using this method puts your system at risk. packagekit has no ability to support manual intervention and this is often required to get the correct outcome. Using packagekit to install software or perform updates can and will leave you with a broken system on Arch-based distros. If you want a graphical package manager, you can use pamac, bauh or octopi

[r0ckhopper]

@pebcak

why you probably shouldn’t and what you can use instead

@4p1C - I echo this advice of @pebcak

[4p1C]

Alright guys,
You win that was a bad idea.
Cheers