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JawsThemeSwimming428

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Best pacman GUI app

As the title reads I am wondering what the best (latest, most up to date, and easy to use) pacman GUI is? I have looked at the wiki and saw YAPG (no longer developed) and Shaman which doesn't seem to be alive anymore as the web site is no longer available. pacmanager-svn is an option but I am not running kdemod 4 yet (still 3.5.9) and it is a Qt4 app. does that matter? Any suggestions?

dyscoria

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Just fixed the shaman link. Looking to be a very nice project and I think kdemod are planning to use it as the default package manager for their kdemod distro.

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Pactrac on Faunos...............

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Sjoden

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Jacman, http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/jacman/ and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … _Frontends

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JawsThemeSwimming428

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Just fixed the shaman link. Looking to be a very nice project and I think kdemod are planning to use it as the default package manager for their kdemod distro.

Is KDEmod a separate distro from Arch??

JawsThemeSwimming428

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Jacman, http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/jacman/ and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … _Frontends

What would be the advantages of using Jacman over Shaman?

tigrmesh

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Is KDEmod a separate distro from Arch??

No.  This wiki page explains it:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDEmod.

ekerazha

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

gtkPacman ? http://gtkpacman.berlios.de

dyscoria

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Just fixed the shaman link. Looking to be a very nice project and I think kdemod are planning to use it as the default package manager for their kdemod distro.

Is KDEmod a separate distro from Arch??

It's unreleased yet, but it's called Chakra. I was just making the point that Shaman is being actively developed and will have some good support behind it.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50312&p=1
http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=688

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funkyou

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Definitely shaman, it has builtin awesomeness

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Sjoden

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Jacman, http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/jacman/ and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … _Frontends

What would be the advantages of using Jacman over Shaman?

I have no idea. I just know that I've used Jacman before and I haven't used Shaman. I just use pacman now.

/sarcasm
What would be the advantages of using Shaman over Jacman?

/edit
(not meant to be rude)

Last edited by Sjoden (2008-07-14 22:49:37)

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schivmeister

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Jacman would be the simpler one. Shaman is more of an all-in-one thing..

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Mr Green

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

xterm!

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Allan

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

What would be the advantages of using Shaman over Jacman?

Does Jacman actually work at the moment.  I thought it was broken...

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ganja_guru

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

Shaman is absolutely brilliant. I was wondering why this came with KDEmod, but now I know. Integrates very well into Xfce/Gnome taskbar too. I've tried most other pacman GUI apps, and this is the only one which comes close (and sometimes exceeds, especially while searching) pacman's CLI.

INCSlayer

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

I really don't see the point of using a GUI app when yaourt provides a good ncurses-based interface for this purpose.

yaourt has a ncurses interface??

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kolbycrouch

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Re: Best pacman GUI app

well shaman works for me pretty well. hasnt crashed on me like gtkpacman always did, and it will better integrate if you use kde or kdemod. but if your running shaman, and then you use pacman's cli for upgrade/installing/removing anything. make sure you restart shaman so that it notices the different packages

Last edited by kolbycrouch (2008-07-18 18:50:07)