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khaalid

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Registered: 2024-08-30

Posts: 7

interigating plasma discover and pacman

everytime i wanna update/upgrade my computer i have to run pacman manually,  and then open plasma discover to upgrade flatpak application so it seems to me non productive currently gnome software does it well and gives an option to add a repo so is it possible on kde discover. I wonder if possible without any issues or bugs because discover even doesn't have any option to add new repo

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,849

Re: interigating plasma discover and pacman

Don't .
Keep flatpak, snaps, appimages etc separate from pacman managed stuff .

pacman uses alpm and that can be used by other tools also.
Gnome software & KDE discover use packagekit which does have rudimentary support for alpm.

Using packagekit on archlinux for pacman-managed stuff gives so many issues it makes pamac* look rock solid .

*pamac = gui tool for pacman management created & maintained by manjaro.
It has improved over time but is still prone to breakage & breaking stuff on archlinux .

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,823

Re: interigating plasma discover and pacman

Packageshit has been scrapped from the arch gnome-software build, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/ … ith_pacman
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … gekit-qt6/ is an optional dependency of discover and the byline is "to manage packages from Arch Linux repositories (not recommended, use at your own risk)" and there's a reason why I keep calling it packageshit.

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