AUR helpers/Graphical
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zh-CN:Pacman GUI Frontends This is a list of frontends for the pacman CLI tool. The list includes full featured GUI frontends, informational tools, and a variety of system tray notifiers. The list also includes categories for GTK2 based and Qt based software.
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Pacman frontends
X11
- PacmanXG4 — GUI front-end for pacman. Depends neither GTK+ nor Qt, just X11. This graphical tool allows to do the following:
- Install/remove/upgrade packages
- Search packages/filter packages
- Retrieve package info include screenshots
- Downgrade packages (need downgrade utility from AUR)
- Refresh package database, synchronize mirrors.
- Update system in one click
- Find out which package a specific file belongs to (include file with pkgfile utility)
- yaourt support
- Screenshots http://almin-soft.fsay.net/index.php?pacmanxg/4x-hide/pacmanxg-4x-screenshots
- Direct link to binary: http://almin-soft.fsay.net/data/files/pacmanxg/download.php?get=pacmanXG4.tar.bz2
- Web page: http://translate.google.com.hk/translate?act=url&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://almin-soft.fsay.net/index.php?pacmanxg/4x-series (en) || AUR : pacmanxg4-binAUR
- PacmanExpress — GUI front-end for pacman. Depends neither GTK+ nor Qt, just X11. This graphical tool is a lightweight version of PacmanXG
- Interface "all in one box"
- No query. Install/remove packages takes place immediately.
- Ability to run multiple operations/remove packages (be careful!)
- yaourt support
- Direct link to binary: http://almin-soft.fsay.net/data/files/pacmanxg/download.php?get=pacmanexpress.tar.bz2
- Web page: http://translate.google.com.hk/translate?act=url&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://almin-soft.fsay.net/index.php?pacmanxg/pacman-express(en) || AUR : pacmanexpressAUR
GNOME/GTK+
- Wakka — Package manager for Arch Linux, derived from the work done on GtkPacman. The goal is to clean up the code and rework the program to be stable and extensible.
- GNOME PackageKit — Distribution-agnostic collection of utilities for managing packages. Using the alpm backend, it supports the following features:
- Install and remove packages from the repos.
- Periodically refresh package databases and prompt for updates.
- Install packages from tarballs.
- Search for packages by name, description, category or file.
- Show package dependencies, files and reverse dependencies.
- Ignore IgnorePkgs and hold HoldPkgs.
- Report optional dependencies, .pacnew files, etc.
- You can change the remove operation from -Rc to -Rsc by setting the DConf key org.gnome.packagekit.enable-autoremove.
- zenity_pacgui — Zenity GUI for Pacman.
KDE/Qt
- KPackageKit/Apper — GUI frontend for PackageKit. Pacman integration is accomplished via the packagekit, which gained upstream support for pacman. This graphical tool allows to do the following from KDE's systemsettings:
- Install/remove/upgrade packages
- Search packages/filter packages
- Retrieve package info
- Refresh package database
- Choose which repositories will be updated
- Automatically refresh database (Hourly, daily etc.)
- Automatically update packages
- While pacman support in PackageKit is relatively new, it works with no major problems, providing ease of use, simplicity, and good integration with KDE (and PolicyKit).
- Screenshots: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Apper?content=84745
- http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Apper?content=84745 || apper
- AppSet — Advanced and feature rich GUI front-end for Package Managers. AppSet has the following features:
- Software sections (games, office, multimedia, internet etc.)
- Shows homepages for selected packages in an embedded web browser
- Shows distributions news with an embedded feed reader
- Upgrades, installs and removes packages
- Shows available upgrades with a Tray Icon
- Updates database periodically
- Informs about dependencies (for example when trying to remove a package needed by others)
- Cache clean command (to free disk space)
- Intelligent launcher that uses what is already installed to get administrative privileges (by searching for kdesu, gksu or at last for an xterm where it starts with a sudo command)
- Now with AUR support with Packer as backend
- AppSet needs only QT libs as dependence for installation. It can be used in any desktop environment. Currently only works for Archlinux using pacman.
- Screenshots http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=376825
- http://appset.sourceforge.net/ || appset-qtAUR
- Octopi — Powerful Pacman frontend written in Qt. Features include:
- LOW in resource consumption (including memory)
- FAST
- Supports Arch, ArchBang, Chakra and Manjaro Linux
- Supports KDE 4.x, XFCE, LXDE, MATE, Openbox and TDE
- Systemtray icon providing notifier support
- Pacman sync database, system upgrade and clean cache support
- Yaourt support
- Install/Re install/Upgrade/Remove selected packages – watching the output of these commands on demand – in a trasaction based abstraction
- View the contents of installed packages (including opening and editing its files)
- View the description of packages in tooltips, just moving the mouse over them
- Octopi needs QT4 libs as dependence for installation.
- Screenshots http://octopiproject.wordpress.com/screenshots/
- http://octopiproject.wordpress.com/ || octopi-gitAUR
Ncurses
- pcurses — Package management in a curses frontend, including:
- regexp filtering and searching any package property
- customizable colorcoding
- customizable sorting
- external command execution with package list string replacements
- user defined macros and hotkeys
- Screenshots https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122749
- https://github.com/schuay/pcurses || pcursesAUR
- yaourt-gui — Designed for new users who want to start using Arch Linux. Written in Bash, it offers a GUI from terminal to the common tasks of yaourt and pacman.
- Screenshots http://sourceforge.net/projects/yaourt-gui/
- Direct link to source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yaourt-gui/files/yaourt-gui-0.9.tar.gz
- Web page:http://alexiobash.com/yaourt-gui-a-bash-gui-per-yaourt-3/ || AUR : yaourt-guiAUR
Pacman/AUR package browser
- PkgBrowser — Application for searching and browsing Arch packages, showing details on selected packages.
- Search and browse Arch packages including the AUR
- Purely an informational application that cannot be used to install, remove or update packages
- By design, is an accessory to CLI package management via pacman
- Further details on use via manual accessed from help menu
- Forum page: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117297
- https://code.google.com/p/pkgbrowser/ || pkgbrowserAUR
- Pacinfo — Application to browse the installed packages and show information like screenshot, installed files, installation date and others. Written in Mono/GTK#
System tray notifiers
- Aarchup — Fork of archup. Has the same options as archup plus a few other features. For differences between both please check changelog.
- Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/yTNvg.png
- https://github.com/aericson/aarchup/ || aarchupAUR
- pacman-notifier — Written in Ruby, uses GTK+. Shows an icon in the system tray and popup notifications (using libnotify) for new packages.
- Screenshots: https://github.com/v01d/pacman-notifier/wiki
- Pacupdate — Small application that notifies the user about new updates for Arch Linux. If Pacupdate finds out that a update is available, it will display a notification in SystemTray
- Yapan — Written in C++ and Qt. It shows an icon in the system tray and popup notifications for new packages and supports AUR helpers.
- Forum page: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113078
- http://code.google.com/p/arch-yapan/ || yapanAUR
- ZenMan — Pacman frontend (tray update notifier) for GTK+/GNOME/zenity/libnotify.
- Screenshots: http://show.harvie.cz/screenshots/zenman-screenshot-2.png
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25948 || zenmanAUR
- pkgnotify.sh — Simple 14 line shell script that displays the number of available updates in the dzen2 title window and a list of these updates in the slave window. Depends on dzen2, inotify-tools, package-query and optionally an AUR helper (yaourt by default).
- Screenshots: http://andreasbwagner.tumblr.com/post/853471635/arch-linux-update-notifier-for-dzen2
- http://pointfree.net/repo/?r=dzen2_scripts;a=headblob;f=/src/pkgnotify/pkgnotify.sh || not packaged? search in AUR
- kalu — Small C application that adds an icon in the systray and can show notifications for Arch Linux News, Upgrades, AUR upgrades, and watched (AUR) upgrades (upgrades for packages not installed). Also includes a GUI system upgrader.
- Screenshots: http://jjacky.com/kalu
- Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135773
- https://github.com/jjk-jacky/kalu || kaluAUR