De apps I already spoke to you on one occasion, a front-end for PackageKit that allows us to easily install applications, without having to use the terminal.
A mi me gusta Pacman, but it is possible that some user of ArchLinux want a graphical tool to install your packages. Distributions like Chakra y Manjaro, It seems to me that they have a graphical installer, but in ArchLinux it does not exist, or at least not that I know of.
That was why I decided to experiment and settled apps to see if it worked and surprise !!! Works.
I have no complaints. Although the repositories have to be set manually, the rest of the functionalities (Update and Install packages) work wonders.
It would be good if some user of another Desktop Environment, who uses Arch, try and tell me if it works. 😉
To install apps we already know the procedure:
$ sudo pacman -S apper
With love, but I refuse to taste it, I adore pacman xD
And I, and I .. but there is always who wants all graphics 😀
Well, I use both methods (graph-console), although I use more the console to manage the packages.
You decide that you prefer the terminal (and in part I understand it more and more every day, more than once I have spent an entire afternoon going around my desk for having followed the steps of some tutor using a package manager instead of the terminal), but ... how do you know all the packages that are at your disposal?
One of the things I like to do the most is to explore the package managers, find curious applications, addons, applets ... which in the terminal I think (I think, I'm still a novice) that is not possible unless I know do a specific search (with which you already have to know more or less the name of the package in question, and sometimes the exact name).
At the moment of truth I think that both methods are good options depends on what for, sometimes the terminal (when updating, for example), in others the graphical interface ... it is the good thing about the world of GNU / Linux, that there are all kinds of flavors to choose from (only some are cursed and have artificial flavorings, but you can choose the flavor you like best).
I have some doubts regarding pacman and I would like to learn from you
Suppose I am going to install something:
sudo pacman -S package-name
After he finds it, he asks me several questions which I don't know what to answer if Y or N
What is this all about?
What should I do or what am I doing wrong when installing something?
Good companion, because generally what it does is, first it informs you of the dependencies that it will need to install to make the program work, and then it asks you if you are sure you want to install them, if you give no (due to that a dependency has a name that you don't like or more realistic reasons that don't come to mind) you are simply telling it that you don't want to accept the download of dependencies that would make the program work.
This is how I understand it at least, I am also a "novice", I have been a year, since October last year, in the Linux world, and I have just started with Arch. Although as you will see, I am still here in my Win ... see if I can get past once and for all hehe.
Greetings.
You can browse the pacman and aur packages with pkgbrowser and then use the terminal to install.
I had it installed for some time, it works, I even think it can be configured to automatically notify you about new available updates.
But I recommend its use only to find the packages, and install them with pacman.
In Manjaro it can also be used, but the one that comes by default is Pamac.
Manjaro + KDE is the ugliest distro I've ever seen, and I've been through a lot ...
I have not seen a single package manager in graphical mode that is worthwhile. But it is no less true that they are a 'necessary evil' for newcomers.
Well the best it is the Software Center, but the downside is that it is 100% GTK +.
For those of us who use Fedora, RHEL or CentOS we use yum which is spectacular :). Greetings Oscar
yum is far from spectacular, for starters it is a horribly slow and heavy Python script.
yum already exists well done and is called a zipper - which is also made in C.
Why does it always ask me for a password when installing a program?
To get rid of the bad habit that creeps from Windows to install without asking for the password.
Starting with Windows Vista, it asks for your permission even to delete a file. For me, it is quite comfortable with respect to Windows XP.
If you use an administrator account, it does not ask for a password, only confirmation.
I used it in OpenSUSE and I didn't like it at all, I often got duplicate packages.
Well, at least on Debian, it has worked like a charm for me. Surely, in OpenSUSE, they have not adapted the Apper well to be really useful for newbies.
It is better to install software from Yast, although nothing beats Synaptic, it is the king of software managers by UI.
That's because often in opensuse you get the package + and the 'src' of the package, not that they are duplicates.
As a novice Arch user, I am learning how to use pacman .. however when I have questions about packages and their origin I turn to octopi instead. I install it from AUR ... I give the link just in case ...
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octopi-git/
It is still worth noting that chakra comes with octopi already installed.
regards…
I was thinking of using Octopi (as an Arch user with KDE), would you recommend it over Apper?
Pacman rules !! I would not change it for anything.
I'm going to try it to see how it goes.
I pull Pacmac, but I want to clean up and Pamac has yet to improve the truth.
Ok, do not install it, it installs all KDE XD
Do you really think there is a need for a post about archlinux? It is that they are not just any noob users. They have good knowledge (on average). And everything that is searched is all on the wiki (in English) and it is what appears first in google search… The noobs and comfortable took refuge in manjaro.
This program is also very invasive, it uses a lot of ram, cpu and consumes a lot of network traffic.
Oh what a badass !!!!
I like Pacman, but some ArchLinux user may want a graphical tool to install their packages. Distributions like Chakra and Manjaro, it seems to me that they have a graphical installer, but in ArchLinux it does not exist, or at least not that I know of.
Arch users have a habit of reading the wiki and contributing to the edition, it is free and anyone can do it.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_GUI_Frontends
If you don't use KDE Apper it is not a good option, as it depends on kdebase-workspace it will install many KDE packages for you. Apper uses PackageKit as a back-end, in Gnome (and other GTK environments) you can use gnome-packagekit which is also a front end of PackageKit and has no KDE dependencies.
There is a very good one that uses Antergos that I think is ideal for Arch
It's just wonderful
I have some doubts regarding pacman and I would like to learn from you
Suppose I am going to install something:
sudo pacman -S package-name
After he finds it, he asks me several questions which I don't know what to answer if Y or N
What is this all about?
What should I do or what am I doing wrong when installing something?
Another last thing, how can I do source smoothing using Gnome Shell?
When it finds it, it asks you if you want to install the package, obviously you have to put Y, or S (if the system is in Spanish)
And it depends on the package, it asks other questions to which if you don't know, just hit enter and that's it.