Hi,
I can’t install Pamac correctly.
I try
yay -S pamac-aur
The installation takes place, but Pamac is not in the Applications menu.
in terminal: pamac --version:
pamac-cli 11.7.3- - libpamac 11.7.3-2
Copyright © 2019-2024 Guillaume Benoit
This program is free software, you can redistribute it under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Please how to start GUI pamac the please?
pamac-manager in terminal, does the application start?
what Desktop is in use? package build should have installed desktop files and it should show up on menu… but not as “pamac” its called System Software Install or something… in case you will need to reboot to have it in the menu…
In menu, it is “Add/Remove Software” normally.
yea no clue very long time not seeing this on any of my installs 
It’s listed in the menu under applications as add remove software as @cactux said.
Thank you all for your advice. I ran pamac-manager and the pamac gui started. After closing it, the menu icon also appeared Add/Remove Software.
I use KDE and I switched back from Cachyos, which works with Octopi/paru
I thought pamac is a Manjaro thing and shouldn’t used on other Arch distributions. Am I wrong? 
I don’t believe so. I’t’s not like KDE’s Discover which should not be used with Arch (unless configured to use only Flathub).
Pamac is basically just a front-end for pacman/yay/paru/flathub/snap. I don’t believe that there is any harm in using Pamac.
I read that gui package managers using packagekit as backend (discover, gnome software) cause problem on Arch.
Problem with pamac is that things in Arch repos and dependencies of pamac from AUR can update at different times and it can break pamac temporarily.
No that’s just someone espousing that view but it’s not necessarily true. I agree with both @UncleSpellbinder and @cactux
I also use it btw and yes it can get broken at times. But it doesn’t bother me as it’s only a tool i use periodically so it’s not an essential package that is needed to run EOS.
Thanks, @UncleSpellbinder , @cactux & @ricklinux ! I didn’t know that. Good to know. Maybe I’ll try pamac in the next day. 
That’s the only thing to remeber. Oh, and to stay calm when that happens, it will be fixed a few days later.
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