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NerdWorld

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From: West Grove, PA

Registered: 2012-03-17

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Newbie: pacman GUI

Sorry for this blatently newbie question, but I'm trying to use the pacman GUI (as mentioned onthe wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … Frontends), but can't figure out how to install any of them.

I'm using KDE, so want to try KPackageKit & AppSet, but can't figure out the pacman command to load it.

Searching the on-line package list at http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ also doesn't turn up any reference to these programs.

I'm using the "core", "extra" and "community" repositories.

Can someone please give me a pointer to help me?

TIA

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Awebb

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

https://aur.archlinux.org/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

EDIT: Post #1024. Hooray.

Last edited by Awebb (2012-03-17 11:58:05)

Trilby

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

Welcome to the forums NerdWordl,

KPackageKit seems to have been renamed apper-git and is in the AUR.  Gtkpacman seems to be a far more popular gui, also in the AUR.

I'm skeptical on how useful such tools could be, and suspicious that they could be a hinderance.  Pacman is an elegantly simple-to-use yet very powerful tool.  If you are new to arch I'd strongly encourage you to use pacman well.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-03-17 12:20:00)

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NerdWorld

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm an old Gentoo user (migrating due to the slowly degrading quality of gentoo..  <sigh>), so I actually prefer the command line for most stuff like this.  Like you, Trilby, I think the GUI just gets in the way of true understanding whats going on under the hood.

Actually, all I really needed was a list of packages, and the AUR list that Awebb suggested worked great.  Now that I have that, I'm not going to bother with the GUI.

Thanks for the help!

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ewaller

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

...I'm an old Gentoo user ...<sigh>), so I actually prefer the command line for most stuff like this.

Another Gentoo Expatriate   Welcome to Arch, I came from Gentoo (I miss it sometimes).  You will like it here.

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

EDIT: Post #0x400. Hooray.

ftfy

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oldtimeyjunk

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

Just for the record, I'm using "gpk-application". This can be installed with "gnome-packagekit" - it's the only package manager I've had success with. To be honest, you should be using Pacman from the command line.

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tomk

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Re: Newbie: pacman GUI

Actually, all I really needed was a list of packages, and the AUR list that Awebb suggested worked great.

Ehmmm.... that makes no sense at all. The packages that a pacman gui would list for you are those provided by Arch's official repos. The packages provided by the AUR are unofficial user-provided packages, as described in the accompanying documentation linked above.