octopi
A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs (by aarnt)
yay
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go (by Jguer)
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octopi | yay | |
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2 | 126 | |
541 | 10,342 | |
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7.6 | 8.5 | |
about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
C++ | Go | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
octopi
Posts with mentions or reviews of octopi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Should I use Manjaro?
This is Octopi, a powerful Pacman/AUR front.
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Pacman with GUI
Pamac is built-into Manjaro and there is also Octopi
yay
Posts with mentions or reviews of yay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- Arch yay 0 current speed
- 2 things I didn't know about yay until today.
- How to find the download command for a program.
- Newish Linux user : package management woes
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Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux
yay is a robust and user-friendly AUR (Arch User Repository) helper for Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions written in Go.
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Installed Arch Linux
paru has better defaults and --chroot, whereas it's still an open issue for yay.
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Discovery gives "The PackageKit daemon has crashed" error suddenly (Arch)
If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.
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I'm seriously so sick of the pop ups on every website I visit.
This one: https://github.com/Jguer/yay Didn't know there were others..
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List of available software to install?
you can use an aur helper like yay
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ERROR after python3.11 update
Yay is hopelessly broken, it pretends to rebuild stuff when, in fact, it doesn't. See: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2153
What are some alternatives?
When comparing octopi and yay 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
pacui - Bash script providing advanced Pacman and Yay/Pikaur/Aurman/Pakku/Trizen/Pacaur/Pamac-cli functionality in a simple UI
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
docker-archlinux-aur - The Official Arch Linux Docker image after installing an AUR helper.
spotify-adblock-linux - Spotify adblocker for Linux
pacpush - Arch Linux utility to push a host's package and AUR caches to other hosts
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code