pacwatch
A pacman wrapper which helps you watch important package updates. (by ouuan)
yay
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go (by Jguer)
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| pacwatch | yay | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 126 | |
| 25 | 10,306 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.7 | 8.7 | |
| about 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
pacwatch
Posts with mentions or reviews of pacwatch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.
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Yay or Paru!!??
I type yay in the terminal to use pacwatch which invokes paru.
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What is a program that you use that's uncommon but essential for you?
I want to be aware of important package updates but don't want to read the whole update list, so https://github.com/ouuan/pacwatch.
- Show HN: Highlight package updates for Arch Linux
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 pacwatch and yay you can also consider the following projects:
cdhist - Linux shell cd history.
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
frece - Maintain a database sorted by frecency (frequency + recency)
ansible-aur - Ansible module to manage packages from the AUR
pikaur - AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
spotify-adblock-linux - Spotify adblocker for Linux
snap-pac - Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE's YaST
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code