informant
An Arch Linux News reader and pacman hook (by bradford-smith94)
archinstall
Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc. (by archlinux)
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| informant | archinstall | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 199 | |
| 232 | 5,641 | |
| - | 3.5% | |
| 2.2 | 9.4 | |
| about 2 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
informant
Posts with mentions or reviews of informant.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
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As An Arch User, I find this incredibly True.
It blocks your updates when there's Arch newsfeed updates that you haven't read, prints it to terminal and then you just need to mark the latest news as read for your updates to go through. It's rare enough that it's not a bother, while this news can contain crucial information about what needs manual intervention and how. https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant
- What are cool things in Arch that aren’t that popular.
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Considering Arch for future use but have one concern
You can install Informant
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Getting 'error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))' during update
Not sure about any EndeavourOS specific solution, but informant as a pacman hook gets you all the unread Arch news items before upgrading.
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Does anyone have experience/thoughts on going from Debian to Arch for my daily driver?
Before an update, I check if something has been released at https://archlinux.org/news/ that affects my own installation. If so, this has to be taken into account. For automatic checking there are tools like informant (https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant).
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Is Arch a good distro if you don't want to do due diligence on updates?
informant is very useful to me. It shows you any news articles from the site that you haven't read, before updating. This is how I make sure I don't miss any news updates.
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Is there anything like Gentoos "news" function in portage, that notifies you directly of any manual changes that you might need to make to your system in an update?
Informant (from the AUR) gives you a few commands to check the arch news and includes a pacman hook that blocks transactions if there are unread news.
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Arch & Manjaro. Is it a bad idea to have a systemd timer automatically update the system every day when I will be away for like a week?
Don't automate updates, bad idea. Use a hook like https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant You will be fine not updating for a month.
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If I don't update my system for a while do I need to just update the keyring?
I highly recommend Informant. It's basically a hook into pacman that checks Arch news before installing anything, and if there is a new message you are forced to read it before you can proceed.
- Simple script to always check up arch news before updating system
archinstall
Posts with mentions or reviews of archinstall.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
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Archinstall ntp non servers?
In any case, have you studied https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall and https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall. While archinstall is new and has the expected bugs, I've not had your issues before. You might try an earlier ISO, like Oct 2023, though it's not clear if you're using an ISO or the archinstall installed package.
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Trusted GUI installer to install pure ArchLinux ?
I'm using my laptop as dual boot between Manjaro and Windows 10, I tried for months to install ArchLinux using archinstall tool but the operation always fails with random errors, because I want to install it on a single ext4 partition like how Manjaro is installed. Is there any trusted GUI installer that uses calamares and can install pure ArchLinux ?
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Endeavor vs Vanilla arch?
The related issue https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1111 implies it's fixed, but either way, you can just securely delete your password after the install.
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grub-install needed after GRUB package gets updated?
Mount that partition as /efi. Change this in your /etc/fstab as well. This is a good time to remove all the weird carriage returns that archinstall puts in your fstab file (https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1399).
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Steam On Linux Use Ticked Higher In May, 25% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck
Most distros have a nice graphical installer which does make things less of a hassle. But these days Arch also bundles archinstall which is quite easy to use and supports a few display environments for automatic setup right out the gate which is nice.
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Distro Hopping
Or just use archinstall which is official part of the iso file.
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Is setting /boot to a separate partition a mandatory in archinstall ?
You can post an issue at: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall to get the attention of the developer. He's represented here but I forget his user id.
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Plz help I'm trying Archinstall in virtual box but is not working
If you're still suffering with this problem: Maybe try to find the file/module on your system. If it's present, you might want to try to run this pacman -Sy python archinstall (found it here: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1810) to reinstall python and the archinstall script. I hope that this helps you.
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Does Archinstall have any downsides?
Still feels that it is in rapid development phase, rather than just maintenance, last month I encountered this bug
- Arch installation claims archinstall doesn't exist 😂😂😂 What a joke of an OS!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing informant and archinstall you can also consider the following projects:
bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
archfi - Arch Linux Fast Installer : tutorial installer
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.
Stream-Framework - Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:
archiso - Official archiso scripts Repository (read-only mirror)
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc. [Moved to: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall]
autorandr - Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr
dotfiles - 🍒 My daily Arch Linux setup
gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
prep4ud - Speed up Arch Linux system updates via pre-downloading packages
s-tui - Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility