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rant on distros
  • chroniccommand
    Posts: 1,389
    said:


    What is pacman for? Arch?



    Yep. It's one of my favorite package managers. A simple pacman -S kde to install kde :P

    Portage is pretty good too. RPM is just too bloated(my opinion).
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    yeah, isn't it the equiv for apt-get?

    NVM, chronic answered :P
  • comhack
    Posts: 17
    Also, Yaourt is a great tool for Archlinux and it provides access to an additional 28,454 packages from AUR (Arch User Repositories. Yaourt is basically a frontend to pacman that lets you install AUR packages as well as packages from the normal repos.
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

    Giving you a total of 37.986 packages to choose from.
  • chroniccommand
    Posts: 1,389
    said:


    Also, Yaourt is a great tool for Archlinux and it provides access to an additional 28,454 packages from AUR (Arch User Repositories. Yaourt is basically a frontend to pacman that lets you install AUR packages as well as packages from the normal repos.
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

    Giving you a total of 37.986 packages to choose from.



    I've been using clyde this entire time it's pretty good. I've never tried Yaourt.
  • comhack
    Posts: 17
    said:


    said:


    Also, Yaourt is a great tool for Archlinux and it provides access to an additional 28,454 packages from AUR (Arch User Repositories. Yaourt is basically a frontend to pacman that lets you install AUR packages as well as packages from the normal repos.
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

    Giving you a total of 37.986 packages to choose from.



    I've been using clyde this entire time it's pretty good. I've never tried Yaourt.


    Cool, I never heard of that one. I am going to have to check it out.

    Thanks[hr]

    Hmm you have to be root to run clyde, that kind of sux. With yaourt, you build the package as the user then you are only asked for the password when you install/remove a package. Yaourt can be used in place of pacman but is more of an addition instead of a replacement. I have been using it for 3 years now and it works beautifully.