wsl-archlinux-manager
WIP: An efficient & easy strategy to install and manage Arch Linux instances on Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL). (by CompeyDev)
yay
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go (by Jguer)
| wsl-archlinux-manager | yay | |
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| 1 | 127 | |
| 4 | 11,701 | |
| - | 1.9% | |
| 10.0 | 8.5 | |
| over 2 years ago | 7 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
wsl-archlinux-manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of wsl-archlinux-manager.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-26.
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wsl-archlinux-manager: An efficient & easy strategy to install and manage Arch Linux instances on WSL.
Let me know your thoughts on this, you can check it out here. Do keep in mind it's not fully functional though. Will update this post once it is fully functional and stable.
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 2024-06-12.
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My First Arch Linux Installation
Even when I used Arch on WSL, I really liked yay, because it's really fun to type :)
- 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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wsl-archlinux-manager and yay you can also consider the following projects:
wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
arch_linux_wsl2 - Installation instructions for Arch Linux in WSL2
ansible-aur - Ansible module to manage packages from the AUR