At home, we have happily used Artix Linux OpenRC XFCE since 2019.
I noticed that most of the installed packages are now available on the Artix repositories.
So I deactivated [extra] and did a big cleanup. Everything works again. 8)
sudo pacman -Syu alacarte amd-ucode audacious audacity bash-completion bzip2 catfish cups-openrc cups-pdf dvd+rw-tools easytag faac ffmpegthumbs ffmpegthumbnailer filelight firefox geeqie gimp gsmartcontrol gutenprint gzip inkscape intel-ucode lame libreoffice-fresh-fr libreoffice-fresh lximage-qt meld mjpegtools neofetch openshot p7zip pacman-contrib pamac pdfarranger qastools scribus simplescreenrecorder smplayer tex-gyre-fonts thunderbird thunderbird-i18n-fr trizen viewnior volumeicon vorbis-tools xsane xsane-gimp xournalpp zim
sudo pacman -Sy ark dolphin kdegraphics-thumbnailers kimageformats5 oxygen-icons qt5-imageformats
Just a few applications are not yet available:
avidemux-qt: available in Appimage version at https://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.htmlfirefox-i18n-fr: I can download it from https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/firefox-i18n-fr/ and install it locally (sudo pacman -U /path/to/firefox-i18n- fr-xxx-any.pkg.tar.zst).gimp-help-fr: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/gimp-help-fr/
grsync: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/grsync/librecad: in Appimage version on https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases
screenkey:
trizen screenkey
1 aur/screenkey-git 1.1.r5.g467662b-1 [installed] [12+] [0.00%] [6 Jun 2023]
Screencast tool to show your keys inspired by Screenflick, based on key-mon. Active fork with new features.
key-mon:
trizen key-mon
1 aur/key-mon 1.20-2 [installed] [56+] [1.00%] [4 May 2023]
A screencast utility that displays your keyboard and mouse status
A very big thank you to the packagers !
Another good way is some repos which compile extra separately by themselves, this gives you most of the arch repos without depending on them.
Easiest to install from AUR are the keyrings and mirrorlist of ALHP https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=alhp, then you add their extra repo.
Only mention is your cpu needs to support v3 e.g. be ~8 years old or newer.
Sounds interesting.
I looked, but didn't understand how to install alhp-keyring nor alhp-mirrorlist.
Sorry for my incompetence. :-[
My cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
:)
CPU is good.
I made a guide here, ignore the placement instructions: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5188.0.html
it skips all the install parts too.
If the aim was to remove the Arch repo's for enhanced stability, or just because you'd prefer to be Artix only, then adding the Alhp repo's would just take you back to almost where you were before.
The Alhp repo's are just a carbon copy of the arch repo's using the arch PKGBUILD's unmodified.
The only difference between Arch & Alhps are the flags set up set up in /etc/makepkg.conf when the packages are built.
You can see the flags for the Alhp's repo versions (v2, v3, v4) here (https://alhp.dev/makepkg/)
So any problems potentially caused having the Arch repo's enabled would just be likewise with Alhp.
Not that I'm against Alhp. I use their repo's myself in preference to the arch repo's.
Thanks for the detailed tutorial!
For now, I'll leave it as is.
But one of these days it will tickle my fancy to try. :)
I prefer to be Artix only whenever possible.
Thank you for these insightful explanations. 8)
I added firefox-i18n and avidemux.
Flatpak can be a good method of filling in the gaps too, especially if you don't mind the inconvenience of granting packages permissions and all that.
Awesome. THANKS !
I use a few Appimages, but have never tried flatpack on Artix.
I note, I note. 8)