Pacseek is FANTASTIC!

Why haven’t I checked out Pacseek before today!? I’d heard about it the past couple years, but never really investigated. The past couple days, Pacseek has been mentioned in a thread or two. Particularly the Where is the fracking app store? thread. I finally did a bit of investigation and installed it. I absolutely LOVE it. And I see it’s maintained by EndeavourOS Forum member @moson. His GitHub can be found HERE.

A bit of a 10 minute deep dive on Pacseek:

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Though, last commit was 9months ago :eyes:

This is totally speaking from ignorance, but maybe with the API being stable and feature complete, it doesn’t need any updates?
Just throwing it out…I don’t know.

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. :wink:

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The only one saying 9 months ago is the git version. pacseek AUR 2024-09-16, pacseek-bin AUR 2024-09-16.

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I do use autocompletions via fish, but don’t ask me which plugins are enabling this currently as I’ve got a quite a bunch of them, with fzf being an major part of it, I guess. Works with pacman as well and gives a good overview. But not the specific infos though.

Will try it. Otherwise I’ll stick to the Arch package and AUR searches.

Does it work with the Chaotic-AUR as well ?

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Yes, it works with any repo you have enabled in /etc/pacman.conf. Pacseek itself is also in the Chaotic repo, so if you have it added you can just install it with Pacman.

I think this is right, probably just nothing to update right now. You can see the dev has responded to issues and stuff in GitHub as recently as a few weeks ago. In general they have always been responsive to issues or feedback in my opinion.

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Welcome to the pacseek club. :grin:

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Started using Pacseek a couple of years ago, I first heard of pacseek on Brodie Robertsons on YouTube.

I would normally recommend topgrade cause it will update everything, but currently with yay AUR won’t build and install through topgrade. I don’t know if it’s a yay issue or topgrade itself. For now I’m using aur-check-updates and then pikaur to install any that are out there then running topgrade.

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Why would you go out of your way when you already have perfectly good tools on EOS to do this. :thinking:The devs have spent a lot of time to create these tools on the welcome app and others for this purpose and they work.

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As said a million times by a million people personal preference, and the fact nothing else that I know of updates everything in one go.

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I’m not knocking you for preferring something else. When you say nothing updates everything all in one I’m just not sure what topgrade does more than eos-update or yay or eos-update --aur. These all update both AUR packages and pacman. What else is there? :thinking:

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I guess one such example would be to update Pacman, AUR along with Nix packages.
I’ve used Nix packages in the past on EOS because some of the packages were missing from AUR. I like using Nix universal package manager to test multiple versions of same program at the same time.

P.S. - Never used topgrade myself

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── 08:45:11 - Summary ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
System update: OK
config-update: OK
snap: OK
Firmware upgrades: OK
Flatpak: OK
Visual Studio Code extensions: OK
Lensfun's database update: OK
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Okay i see what you mean. So it updates other things besides AUR and pacman. :ok_hand:

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LOL now that you mention it I never gavve it a thought to be honest, but it list everything it updates except for AUR even though it does update AUR.

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Whoa this is pretty cool. Excited to check this out.

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