Hello, New to using EOS and found I couldn’t install Neofetch. Not a major issue but is that the case across the board in all flavours of EOS?

[image] G91Productive: sudo yay install Neofetch yay -S neofetch

[image] G91Productive: I couldn’t install Neofetch. How did you try to install? What went wrong? Some info, like terminal output, could help us to help you. [image] G91Productive: is that the case across the board in all flavours of EOS? No.

[image] G91Productive: New to using EOS and found I couldn’t install Neofetch. Not a major issue but is that the case across the board in all flavours of EOS? This is absolutely not enough information. If it does not install for you you certainly have some error message or the like. You need…

My apologies I tried with Yay, so it was sudo yay install Neofetch from memory. It was late last night, forgive me and I’m not in front of the system right this moment. Will re-run and give proper output.

Oh wow, thank you. It seems I have some learning to do since my Manjaro days 3 years ago! I know they are very different but I’ve been Debian for a long time since!

You don’t use sudo with yay. It will prompt you for your admin passwd when needed.

Thank you. I am going from memory but I recall pamac having the sudo command before. So no need for such a thing here! Thank you very much, this is why I love Linux so much as there are so many options and little things to learn from :+1:t2:

Didn’t you learn to use the search function of the pacman package manager on Manjaro? pacman -Ss neofetch extra/fastfetch 2.8.6-1 [installed] Like Neofetch, but much faster because written in C extra/hyfetch 1.4.11-1 Neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags! extra/neofetch 7.1.0-2 [installed] A…

[image] G91Productive: sudo yay install Neofetch [image] Default command line way to install,remove,list packages Newbie Some pacman options worth remembering Options What it does -Syu perform a full update (you should use this when updating). …

[image] G91Productive: I am going from memory but I recall pamac having the sudo command before. So no need for such a thing here! With yay as has been mentioned, no. It will prompt you when you need to give your passwd. With pacman, it depends: No sudo >> when you search for packages or …