Is there graphical tool to install from official repo and AUR?

hi i’m just new
i installed the system and had the welcome window
the assistant gave me link to the official repo " Browse all Arch packages
. and the AUR " Browse all AUR packages "

i went to the 2 websites already and clicked on some links

then what to do ??

Welcome to the forum :enos_flag: !!!
EndeavourOS is a terminal centric distro as given in the website
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If you want to install graphical tools you can find a list of them in the graphical section of this article
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers

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This will help:

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/category/pacman/
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/category/aur/

and welcome to the forum :enos_flag:

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There are 3 options:

  • pamac-aur
  • bauh
  • octopi

pamac is the most store like but it is sometimes broken on Arch-based distros because it targets the Manjaro repos.

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I do like bauh currently :wink:
bauh

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Does a terminal emulator count as a graphical tool? It is a program with a GUI that runs in a window in a desktop session, so it should count, I think.

If it counted, that would solve a lot of requests for GUI stuff…

thinking_72

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Nope :wink:

Bobbins.

You really don’t need a GUI to handle software or updates in Arch or Arch-based systems. You can just use Arches very own pacman or yay or paru.

To update the system.

  • sudo pacman -Syu
  • yay -Syu
  • paru - Alias for paru -Syu.

Install software.

  • sudo pacman -S <software name>
  • yay -S <software name>
  • paru -S <software name>

Search for software in the repository.

  • pacman -Ss <name>
  • yay -Ss <name>
  • paru <name>

This would be the basic but there are many more options you can use. Make man your friend.

EDIT: Fixed the alias description. @pebcak thank you.

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Is that a polite way to tell someone to RTFM? I like it! :slight_smile:

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:thinking:

Paru

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Nothing gets past you Mr. Boofo.

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But the question… was …
is there a GUI application?. :wink:
and indeed there are some and every user is free to use them.

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There are a few of them. Just pointing out it’s not hard to use the terminal which is much trouble-free.

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I think the list of reasonable GUI choices was already presented - so it can’t have hurt to present the terminal version!

Oops - wrong reply button…

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Install software.

  • sudo pacman -S <software name>
  • yay -S <software name>
  • paru -S <software name>

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good
so where can i get the exact name to be accepted by the terminal
i tried to copy the name from the website of arch offcial repo. but some times it’s not accpeted
and i got some error replies from the terminal

If you want to search a package in the Arch repos use sudo pacman -Ss <package name can be partial output of the name>

Or if you use an Android phone, you could install Archpac to quickly search for package names.

There are lots of ways to search for packages, but the simplest procedure is:
yay pkgname - where pkgname contains what you know of its name. Yay will then present a list of pkgs matching that, with numbers beside for your choice to be made. For example, if you heard of kid3 (music tagging app) it might go like this:

┌06:42:20 WD= [~]
└───freebird@nest ─▶$ yay kid3
7 aur/kid3-git 3.8.7_r2449.g3e43e417-1 (+0 0.00) 
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, KDE version
6 aur/kid3-qt-git 3.8.7_r2449.g3e43e417-1 (+0 0.00) 
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, Qt version
5 aur/kid3-common-git 3.8.7_r2449.g3e43e417-1 (+0 0.00) 
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, CLI version and common files
4 aur/kid3-cli 3.8.7-1 (+8 0.16) 
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, CLI version
3 community/kid3-qt 3.9.1-1 (155.4 KiB 356.1 KiB) (Installed)
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, Qt version
2 community/kid3-common 3.9.1-1 (2.7 MiB 12.8 MiB) (Installed)
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, CLI version and common files
1 community/kid3 3.9.1-1 (78.8 KiB 203.2 KiB) 
    An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor, KDE version
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 

and you choose what you wish from the list. You will note I already have it installed - so this also tells you when you did it already!

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In both these cases, yay uses the same syntax as paru.