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Synaptic Package Manager

02 June 2022, 12:08:50

Hi
I have tried to use Artix several times, but the stumbling block I always find is how to install new apps.
In reality I only need a few, like chromium, thonny and gnumeric. I have installed Discover and even after several hours it is still "loading" the items.
Please help, so I can stay with Artix.
How can I install synaptic package manager from the terminal please.
Many thanks, best wishes, Kevin

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #1 – 02 June 2022, 12:35:46

sudo pacman -S ungoogled-chromium thonny gnumeric

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #2 – 02 June 2022, 12:43:58

Synaptic package manager is a GUI wrapper for apt, it's for Debian-based distributions. If you wanna use a GUI wrapper for package manager in Artix, try pamac.

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #3 – 02 June 2022, 12:55:46

or octopi if a gui is really needed - doesn't seem to screw things up as much as pamac seems to do on a vaguely regular occurrence depending on which aur packages are installed. Or just learn the switches for pacman/yay.

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #4 – 02 June 2022, 16:13:03

kevin-81a4:[kevin]:~$ sudo pacman -S ungoogled-chromium thonny gnumeric
[sudo] password for kevin:
error: target not found: ungoogled-chromium
error: target not found: thonny
error: target not found: gnumeric

Hi, tried the terminal commands, had no luck, have shown the output above.
Thanks for help so far.
Best wishes, Kevin

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #5 – 02 June 2022, 17:07:41

octopi and discover are ok but they are not gtk apps. a gtk app should be used for gtk desktop. That's my idea anyway. It's not a hard and fast rule. i love qbittorrent. on the other hand nothing is better than gparted. I use pamac. it's not perfect. but it doesn't have qt bias like discover has. I mat not build with it but i like the gui for searching for apps and esp for searching for them in the aur. When it's time to build or install i prefer the terminal. Pamac can show you the installed files created and you can easily edit the build files. It's all right there. Folks here don;t like it they say it messes up builds. ok build from terminal. no problem. it's not a religion. i use what works and makes sense to me.

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #6 – 02 June 2022, 17:09:51

Quote from: kevin1342 – on 02 June 2022, 16:13:03

kevin-81a4:[kevin]:~$ sudo pacman -S ungoogled-chromium thonny gnumeric
[sudo] password for kevin:
error: target not found: ungoogled-chromium
error: target not found: thonny
error: target not found: gnumeric

Hi, tried the terminal commands, had no luck, have shown the output above.
Thanks for help so far.
Best wishes, Kevin

you need to enable some sources from artix that arent available by default.

https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#:~:text=As%20of%20June%202021%2C%20all,not%20yet%20in%20Artix%20repositories.

DO NOT ENABLE GREMLINS!

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #7 – 02 June 2022, 18:27:25

Install octopi and you will be happy. But don't forget to install the assistant 'yay' and in 'Parameters->AUR' select 'yay',

Re: Synaptic Package Manager

Reply #8 – 03 June 2022, 13:42:28

Quote from: kevin1342 – on 02 June 2022, 12:08:50

I have installed Discover and even after several hours it is still "loading" the items.

Hi,
i found out that for discover to work properlly, you have to install the package packagekit-qt5.
or you get this exact "loading" and endless screen.
So, install it (pacman -S packagekit-qt5)
then try to launch discover again, it should work