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Installing Discover or other GUI Package managers

Hi Everyone,

Just installed Artix KDE plasma on my Asus laptop which so far does look good, and hoping to install Artix on the upcoming Mini ITX ¨Pocket Rocket" which I will be building shortly

I am so much used to having a package manager in previous Linux installations, and it has made life easier (still rehabilitating from Mac).

I understand and respect that there is potential security risks when it comes to installing such applications. But if someone wants to steal my dad jokes - go for it.
Maybe the hackers can have a smile in their miserable lives.

Can you advise on how to install Discover or any other equivalent application onto Artix please.




Thank you in advance,
Michael

Re: Installing Discover or other GUI Package managers

Reply #1 –
Discover is in the Artix repos, if you try typing:
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# pacman -Si discover
into a terminal you should see more about it, and to update then install it (you should usually update before installing new packages):
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# pacman -Syu
(probably reboot to be safe)
# pacman -S discover
But the risks aren't so much security, in fact it may make your system more secure because even you won't be able to get into it.  ;D  It's more that it just might not work properly. I don't use KDE and haven't heard Discover mentioned a lot if ever, so don't know how well it is integrated and maintained. Octopi and Pamac are the main 2 GUI package managers in use here. Pamac is a Manjaro project so on rare occasions if it goes wrong due to an update that takes a while to fix it may not work in Artix for a week or two, because Manjaro is deliberately a bit behind in package version updates for stability, but overall it is quite well maintained and easy to use and mostly works OK.
The recommendation to use pacman is mainly because you won't miss any of the warning messages it shows, but I think Pamac may display those too iirc, not sure if Octopi does but it might.
 

Re: Installing Discover or other GUI Package managers

Reply #2 –
Octopi integrates much better with KDE as it is qt based. When installing software with Octopi I always choose the option to "Run in terminal" when installing, and you will get the warning messages if there are any.

Best regards.
We should try to be kind to everyone.....we are all fighting some sort of battle.

Re: Installing Discover or other GUI Package managers

Reply #3 –
Quote from: conky60 – on
Octopi integrates much better with KDE as it is qt based. When installing software with Octopi I always choose the option to "Run in terminal" when installing, and you will get the warning messages if there are any.

Best regards.
Yes,  +1 on Octopi in here. Nice to have a GUI to just  browse stuff.  Using it in all my Artix systems, never had a trouble.