informant
An Arch Linux News reader and pacman hook (by bradford-smith94)
paru
Feature packed AUR helper (by Morganamilo)
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| informant | paru | |
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| 20 | 74 | |
| 232 | 5,476 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.2 | 8.8 | |
| about 2 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| Python | Rust | |
| 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
paru
Posts with mentions or reviews of paru.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
- Release Paru v2.0.0 (AUR helper)
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what do you wish you knew while starting to use arch?
I would also get a AUR helper, I'd recommend paru (don't forget to configure /etc/paru.conf). Just make sure you're checking the validity of AUR packages.
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Paru not upgrading *-git packages
as the uncommented lines. This has been the default since at least April 2022.
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Is anyone editing PKGBUILD files locally with paru (local changes without "customizepkg")?
I've just discovered that paru supports adding your own changes to PKGBUILD files if they are committed to the cached git repos and merging them with any upstream upgrades:
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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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Concerns Over Arch Stability
paru is an AUR Helper, which also will perform pacman actions (install, upgrade, removal, etc)
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It’s JavaScript all the way down
maybe check out paru - it throws up the PKGBUILD whenever you’re installing a package (or upgrading one when it’s changed)
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Is there any software helps build AUR packages and update them?
paru: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru
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Need help installing webcam drivers ipu6
Thanks. Installing intel-ipu6-dkms-git from AUR using paru is giving error, says
- Is there a way to apply a patch to an AUR package on the fly, without editing the PKGBUILD?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing informant and paru you can also consider the following projects:
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go
bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
octopi - A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs
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:
aur - A secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR.
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc. [Moved to: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall]
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
dotfiles - 🍒 My daily Arch Linux setup
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
prep4ud - Speed up Arch Linux system updates via pre-downloading packages
topgrade - Upgrade everything