Shaman

rp181 · 2010-04-04 02:12:52

I am confused about shaman. Is it available for use? After some googling, i kept coming across people saying to simply used the community repo, but it doesn't seem to have it.

sudo pacman -S shaman
Password: 
shaman package not found, searching for group...
error: 'shaman': not found in sync db

How do i get it to work? Are there good alternatives? (KDE)? Is it because im on a 64bit system?

I tried used the AUR, but it needs aqpm. I try the packagebuild for that, but i get an error saying there is no CMakeList.txt, and fails.

Allan · 2010-04-04 02:20:22

Shaman does not work any more so was removed from the repos. Try shaman2 from the AUR if you are feeling brave. But be warned that it is alpha software so could mess your system.

rp181 · 2010-04-04 02:22:37

Ok, i guess i won't risk it. What other good GUI frontends are there? I am running KDE, although i could live with a gtk one.

anonymous_user · 2010-04-04 04:42:49

Why not stick with plain pacman?

brisbin33 · 2010-04-04 05:02:42

arch is a very command-line-centric distro. for this reason, there's not much market for pacman guis. besides shaman, i can't think of one. in all honesty, if you plan to stick around, you should learn and use pacman. i promise you won't be disappointed. he's one of arch's greatest features.

cesura · 2010-04-04 06:09:27

brisbin33 wrote:

arch is a very command-line-centric distro. for this reason, there's not much market for pacman guis. besides shaman, i can't think of one. in all honesty, if you plan to stick around, you should learn and use pacman. i promise you won't be disappointed. he's one of arch's greatest features.

Love to personify a package manager

zodmaner · 2010-04-04 06:18:20

There used to be quite a lot of GUI front-ends for Pacman. Checkout this wiki page for more detail.

But, alas, a lot of them are now unmaintained. The only one that are being actively develop is Shaman2.

Last edited by zodmaner (2010-04-04 06:19:14)

cesura · 2010-04-04 06:28:22

zodmaner wrote:

There used to be quite a lot of GUI front-ends for Pacman. Checkout this wiki page for more detail.
But, alas, a lot of them are now unmaintained. The only one that are being actively develop is Shaman2.

I believe Chase is being actively developed, considering it's a part of chakra, which is being activity developed

EDIT: Chase uses Shaman, but still

Last edited by cesura (2010-04-04 06:29:19)

voidzero · 2010-04-04 09:37:45

The only reason for me to desire something other than pacman (and yaourt ofcourse, who doesn't love yaourt!) is when I'm doing loong searches. Pacman is great, but sometimes (not often) something with a GUI is just more convenient.

mythus · 2010-04-04 12:18:44

yaourt -S gtkpacman if you must have a gui. It isn't the synaptic from ubuntuland, but it does the job decently for searching packages and the occasional package installation. However you can search in standard pacman as wel, or use arch.org/packages.

If you do decide to use gtkpacman, you will also need gksu. pacman -S gksu will get that for you.

rp181 · 2010-04-04 15:25:35

I am fine with the command line, but the search isn't exactly what i wanted. i installed gtkpacman, but can't find a search in there either.

kernelOfTruth · 2010-05-11 17:26:47

gtkpacman is what I was looking for !

thanks mythus

for me it's not about using a GUI for the package manager for installation but to get an overview over the packages offered so that I can spare myself from having to search for single packages (saving time and working more efficiently) and rather creating a big list of packages to be installed rather fast at once

luckily it's also being actively developed according to its activity percentile (99.something %) from berliOS

Last edited by kernelOfTruth (2010-05-11 17:28:33)

JohannesSM64 · 2010-05-11 17:37:15

pacman can also search with -Ss, and has regexp support, and you can grep the search results, and do things like pacman -S $(pacman -Ssq foobar). With zsh, you can also press tab after that to have it expand to create a list on the command line that you can then selectively pick from. -Si will create a list of available packages and info about them, and if you pipe the output to less, you can then search that list. What more could you want?

There are also packer, bauerbill and clyde, with interactive number selection.

Last edited by JohannesSM64 (2010-05-11 17:39:40)

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#1 2010-04-04 02:12:52

Shaman

#2 2010-04-04 02:20:22

Re: Shaman

#3 2010-04-04 02:22:37

Re: Shaman

#4 2010-04-04 04:42:49

Re: Shaman

#5 2010-04-04 05:02:42

Re: Shaman

#6 2010-04-04 06:09:27

Re: Shaman

#7 2010-04-04 06:18:20

Re: Shaman

#8 2010-04-04 06:28:22

Re: Shaman

#9 2010-04-04 09:37:45

Re: Shaman

#10 2010-04-04 12:18:44

Re: Shaman

#11 2010-04-04 15:25:35

Re: Shaman

#12 2010-05-11 17:26:47

Re: Shaman

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