I have searched everywhere and cannot find the app store. I finally got steam installed now I want Zapzap installed.
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Sadly, this distro doesn’t come with an app store and it is recommended you don’t use a traditional one with a GUI.
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Arch/EndeavourOS is a “Terminal Based” distro. There really is no “App Store”.
Zapzap is in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zapzap
To install it you open the terminal and run yay -S zapzap
Make sure your system is updated first. Either run yay or sudo pacman -Syu
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@DarcSceptor, you may also want to look at these…
And, by the way… welcome to the forums and to the Purple Family! 
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Thank you. I knew this would be a learning process as soon as I followed directions to install Steam. I got through that but now I’m on my own. jejeje So I will happily study the links you included. I happened to begin having problems with Linux Mint after looking at an Arch build screwed up my boot sector and turned on Secured Boot. I wiped and reinstalled but the problems persisted. So now I’m sticking my toes into this pond. So far it is good except for the lack of easy application installation. Fortunately I mostly use Steam.
Thanks for the welcome, bathing in grape juice. 
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yay -Ss desiredpackage
You can install pacseek. It’s like an app store, only better.
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you can use pamac for a gui package manager, itś in aur. It’s installed by default on manjaro
generally i just use yay.
so if i wanna look for a package, like say proton ge, I just type
yay proton ge
And yay will search for packages I might want both from official and unofficial repos,
Then I just pick a number when i find what I was looking for, usually it’s one of the lower packages, I think yay sorts the relevant packages by popularity, with the lowest first.
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If you want to have problems with your Linux install, then use pamac.
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I’m sorry, what? Wouldn’t that generally be the best way not to have problems?
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pamac is well known for breaking packages.
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yeah, but that ain’t what you said, you said pacman.
I did make a typo. I was surprise to see pamac. It screwed me up so bad I was in shock.
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ge appears the same (in output) as using -Ss. Is there a difference?
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Welcome to the community @DarcSceptor 
Arch packages fall into two basic categories:
- Official: https://archlinux.org/packages/
- AUR (Arch User Repository): https://aur.archlinux.org/
To find what you need, first visit the first link above (official) and run a search. If it doesn’t have it, you might consider the second link (AUR).
Generally, you should try to install what you need from the official repositories first. These will typically be more reliable. You can use pacman to install from the official repository:
sudo pacman -S somepackage
If you can’t find what you want in the official repository, or you’re wanting a customised version of a package as is common in the AUR, use yay to install from the AUR:
yay -S somepackage
To clarify:
pacmanonly works with the official repository.yayworks with both official and AUR.
To uninstall a package (if official):
sudo pacman -R somepackage
or (for any):
yay -R somepackage
To remove orphaned packages:
yay -Yc
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Not sure what ur talking about, i was looking for proton ge, this: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
So I just typed in proton ge, The reason it appears the same is probably just that proton-ge-custom is very popular.
I could have used other examples, like discord qt.
You can use yay as basically a package search engine, just type search terms after yay and it’ll find you everything that contains that combination of words, like this:
And yeah, I know pamac is not very good, but linux is about choice, and if people want gui package management, who am I to stand in their way? People who come from windows background often struggle a bit with CLI stuff for a few years after switching, because you don’t use CLI very much at all on windows.
I just happened to be one of the small handful of former windows users who learnd to embrace the CLI exceptionally fast, because I started on the deep end with gentoo, and embracing the CLI was a matter of sinking or swimming on gentoo (as it would have been on baseline arch too)
Fact remains pamac is one of the mostp opular gui frontends for pacman. But now that I’m looking, I suppose there’s argon and parrot too, but I have never used those, cuz I am not a gui package management kind of person myself.
I was simply asking if yay proton ge and yay -Ss proton were the same command. That’s all. Sorry if I was unclear
it is not the same command.
yay -Ss proton and yay proton would more or less give the same results, difference being only that the -Ss version does not prompt you for what package you want to install, it just shows you the results and exits.
So for instance the command yay proton ge custom will search for all packages containing the 3 words proton, ge and custom anywhere in their title or description, reveal them to you, and prompt you for which of the results you would like to install.
There’s no limit to how many keywords you can add as far as i’m aware.
As you can see, by adding that extra keyword i narrowed down the results and it does not give me as many candidates as if i had only asked for proton.
At the bottom you can see it prmopting me to input a number to select a package to install, if I had used yay -Ss custom ge proton I would get the same actual results, but not the package selection prompt.
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oh I like this ^^ install prompt very much–thanks for elaborating
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If you do just yay -S package it will behave exactly like pacman btw, and just install whatever package has a title exactly matching whatever you typed, in case you didn’t know.