octopi VS pacui

Compare octopi vs pacui and see what are their differences.

octopi

A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs (by aarnt)

pacui

Bash script providing advanced Pacman and Yay/Pikaur/Aurman/Pakku/Trizen/Pacaur/Pamac-cli functionality in a simple UI (by excalibur1234)
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octopi pacui
2 3
541 165
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7.6 5.7
about 1 month ago about 1 month ago
C++ Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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octopi

Posts with mentions or reviews of octopi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

pacui

Posts with mentions or reviews of pacui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.
  • Beautiful interface like `nala`
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 4 Mar 2023
    pacui might be the closest attempt at something like nala, but it's not that great.. https://github.com/excalibur1234/pacui
  • parui 1.0.0, a TUI frontend for the AUR helper paru, has been released!
    3 projects | /r/linux | 12 Feb 2023
    I’ve been using pacui. It’s also a similar thing but supports Yay/Pikaur/Aurman/Pakku/Trizen/Paru/Pacaur/
  • noob wanna build tui
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 5 Jul 2021
    hy, i really like using tui programs as they are very fast and cool i have switched to linux a couple of months ago and i really really like bash scripting and terminal stuff many time i wanna make some tui like ranger , ytfzf , Pacui , spotui but i dont know how to make these tuis and integrate them in to my bash scripts i have heard of some libraries like ncurses but dont know much about it another one npyscreen that is in python but i don't know who i can integrate bash into it , if you guide me to some useful thing i will try to contribute some good application that can be useful for others , thanks !

What are some alternatives?

When comparing octopi and pacui you can also consider the following projects:

paru - Feature packed AUR helper

trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager

ansible-aur - Ansible module to manage packages from the AUR

kernel-modules-hook - Keeps your Arch Linux fully functional after a kernel upgrade

yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go

parui - Simple TUI frontend for paru or yay.

docker-archlinux-aur - The Official Arch Linux Docker image after installing an AUR helper.

pacpush - Arch Linux utility to push a host's package and AUR caches to other hosts

pacseek - A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages