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Archlinux: Neat little Pacman frontend


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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:

 

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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.

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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. :thumbsup: 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 :thumbup:

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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.

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