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Octopi vs. Synaptic

Package managers differ in the way they handle packages. From the get-go, I installed Octopi and had since only used it a handful of times. Most days, I update my install with sudo pacman -Syu (alias agu).

Octopi is an OK package manager but, to me, it lacks the extensiveness of Synaptic. For one, a click can display packages and libraries already installed. But what's important to me, I guess, is log/history of when packages were installed and updated.

My question is do we have anything in the repo that might equal or close to the capabilities of Synaptic?

I will hold on to Octopi for the meantime.  :(
S6/Plasma

Re: Octopi vs. Synaptic

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Archie – on
My question is do we have anything in the repo that might equal or close to the capabilities of Synaptic?

How about pkgbrowser .

You can install it from the omniverse repo:

https://eu-mirror.artixlinux.org/omniverse/x86_64/pkgbrowser-0.28.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

or build it yourself:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/pkgbrowser.tar.gz
"Wer alles kann, macht nichts richtig"

Artix USE="runit openrc slim openbox lxde gtk2 qt4 qt5 qt6 conky
-gtk3 -gtk4 -adwaita{cursors,themes,icons} -gnome3 -kde -plasma -wayland "
 

Re: Octopi vs. Synaptic

Reply #2 –
I use nano for this:
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$ nano /var/log/pacman.log

Although I do uncomment these options (remove the #) in /etc/nanorc to get line wrapping and code highlighting
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# include /usr/share/nano/*.nanorc
# set constantshow
# set stateflags
# set softwrap
# set brackets ""')>]}"
# set wordbounds