securitybreach Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I prefer to use the terminal when installing applications and such but someone mentioned this pacman frontend. I tested it out and I am pretty impressed. It is not officially supported bit it seems to work well and doesn't hide anything: Octopi is a powerful tool to manage (Arch | ArchBang | Chakra | KaOS | Manjaro) Linux packages. It has a simple interface which consists of just 2 panels: A list of all available packages A tab widget showing 6 useful tabs: information, files, transaction, output, news and a quick help guide. Some of the features: LOW in resource consumption (including memory) FAST Supports Cinnamon, KDE 3.x, KDE 4.x, LXDE, MATE, Trinity and XFCE Desktop Environments Pacman sync database Pacman system upgrade Pacman clean cache Install/Re install/Upgrade/Remove selected packages – watching the output of these commands on demand – in a trasaction based abstraction View the contents of installed packages (including opening and editing its files) View the description of packages in tooltips, just moving the mouse over them. https://octopiprojec...ress.com/about/ My screenshot of the application: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Looks like a clean easy to use front end. Should help any one with a fear of the terminal whilst still letting them see what is really going on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 For sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsalpha2 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I tried out Void Linux a few days ago. It seems like an amazing distro, but in my opinion needs a graphical package installer. I am not good at compiling or installing from the command line. I wonder if this or PacmanXg would work on Void? http://www.voidlinux.eu/ It is not a fork or customized / modified version of any current distribution, it has been created from scratch. But it seems similar to Arch or Gentoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) I too have always used the CLI to perform all updates, package retrievals etc but I have given Octopi a test drive for a few days since reading this post and I must say, I really like it. I like the way you can get recent Arch Linux news, information on pretty much every package available on in one place. I give it two thumbs up Edited January 22, 2015 by ichase 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Nice!! Honestly I have not played with since the initial run (the day I posted this topic) but I may check it out again after your feedback. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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