r/EndeavourOS • u/enomad51 • 4d ago

Discussion Your preferred way to install packages - GUI vs CLI

How do you manage your packages on EndeavourOS?

  • ⌨️ Terminal warriors: pacman, yay, paru
  • 🖱️ GUI enjoyers: Octopi, Bauh, Shelly, Pamac (yes, I know 😏)
  • 🧙 DIY wizards: custom scripts and aliases
  • 🙏 YOLO squad: sudo pacman -Syu and hope for the best

What's your weapon of choice?

I’m just curious if there are any other GUI package managers being developed. But maybe text mode is more than enough.

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u/Suitable-Scene-4391 4d ago

I prefer the sudo pacman -Syu It works for me all the time.

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u/Zer0_Dark_Turdy 4d ago

Pacman and yay. Gui package managers are bloat.

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 System Architect 4d ago

Bloat? In what way?

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u/Zer0_Dark_Turdy 4d ago

Unessescary software on a terminal centric distro.

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u/Immediate-Ad3360 4d ago

Custom Script

sudo pacman -Syu

sleep 300

systemctl poweroff

If everything is fine it start without trouble. Had never a problem with that update/update routine.

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u/alex_ch_2018 4d ago

Mostly paru, Apdatifier Plasma applet to check updates, sometimes Shelly.

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u/SuAlfons 4d ago

on my second reinstall of EndeavourOS I realized that the function of "yay" listing all kinds of packages that "sound similar enough was ok for me.
I then just searched for the name of apps and it worked most of the time.

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u/New_Willingness6453 3d ago

eos-update --aur

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u/Late-Individual7982 2d ago

On a terminal-centric system like EndeavourOS I would like to use it how it is intended. eos-update --aur and yay do the job so don't make it more complicated than it is.

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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 4d ago

Declaratively.

Then  Sudo NixOS-rebuild switch