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First Look at Shelly, a Modern Graphical Package Manager for Arch Linux (9to5linux.com)

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’d do it sudo pacman -Syu firefox in terminal, and you cannot beat that.

While you're not wrong, and while Arch isn't a particularly forgiving distro for newbies, I'm forever hitting up against trying to guess the name of a package that I want to install via a terminal. Firefox is straightforward, but so many bits of software have names that make sense, but that you couldn't necessarily guess.

[–] littlesmith@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Why guess? Either use the aforementioned package search or use the internet search engine of your choice and type "arch $name_of_the_software". The matching site for the arch or AUR package is always among the first results.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Well, package search is a thing.

s Would you prefer an electron app instead? /s

I’m all-in for some great GUI for that, by the way. But I think having it as an actual website (so, just redesigning the link) is a great thing to have.