r/EndeavourOS • u/theStarla1979 • Aug 13 '26
Installation niri
does the installation give the choice to install niri ?
is it raw ? does it come with a shell ?
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u/ericcmi Aug 13 '26
No, but it's easy enough to just yay -S niri
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u/KorenLesthe Aug 13 '26
Might want to avoid using the AUR repo (yay) because of how vulnerable it is lately.
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u/BroadSignificance774 Aug 13 '26
Yay doesn't automatically install from AUR only. It's an AUR helper but works for both.
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Aug 13 '26
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u/_kzzzl Aug 13 '26
it's the same thing
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u/Both_Cup8417 Aug 13 '26
I don't know what was going through my mind when I wrote that comment. I have a bit more experience with paru, which I know for a fact installs from the main repos if possible, and that yay probably does the same thing.
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u/_kzzzl Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
yay and paru is almost the same
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u/Both_Cup8417 Aug 14 '26
Isn't yay a package manager that interprets PKGBUILDs and executes the commands automatically, including updating packages built from source automatically?
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u/_kzzzl Aug 14 '26
you can prefer to read it
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u/Both_Cup8417 Aug 15 '26
And new users usually don't
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u/pixelizedgaming Aug 13 '26
aur is way riskier
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u/_kzzzl Aug 13 '26
if there's a package in official repos, yay automatically uses them
and if you are using only popular aur packages there should not be any risk
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u/Moist_Professional64 Aug 13 '26
If you want a pre configured niri with a shell you can search dankmaterialshell on google. Theres a automatic installer
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u/_kzzzl Aug 13 '26
dms is great if you don't want to configure but if you are okay with configuring noctalia is great
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u/Character_Pepper2563 Aug 13 '26
It's on official repo. So just do sudo pacman -S niri. If you want a shell, dms is also on official repo but I recommend to install it with their official script so that it's easier to configure. You can also just sudo pacman -S niri dms-shell-niri and run dms setup and dms doctor to see if you miss something. But the easiest way to install dms is by their install script. You could also using Noctalia shell by sudo pacman -S niri noctalia, but in my experience with noctalia, you still need to be comfortable with the niri config.kdl since dms setup your key bind for other application in a nice gui while with Noctalia, you still need to setup your other application keybind in a config.kdl (like using Super+B to open a browser as an example). Dms also have more plugin than noctalia, but I think it's because the change from Noctalia v4 to v5 which is very significant
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