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This page lists the pacman commands to install various packages. | This page lists the pacman commands to install various packages. | ||
For general information about pacman usage, see [[Pacman]]. | For general information about pacman usage, see [[Pacman]]. | ||
Generally speaking, installing packages through pacman is a little bit easier and more streamlined than apt-get. | |||
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=== Gimp === | === Gimp === | ||
Gimp is a free image editor tool. | Gimp is a free image editor tool. | ||
sudo pacman -S gimp | |||
=== VLC === | === VLC === | ||
VLC is an all-encompassing media player. It can handle just about any standardized media format you could throw at it. | VLC is an all-encompassing media player. It can handle just about any standardized media format you could throw at it. | ||
sudo pacman -S vlc | |||
=== LaTeX === | === LaTeX === | ||
For creating and editing pdf files. | For creating and editing pdf files. | ||
== Communication == | == Communication == | ||
=== Discord === | |||
sudo pacman -S discord | |||
=== Slack === | |||
sudo pacman -S slack-web-jak | |||
== General Programming == | == General Programming == | ||
Revision as of 01:36, 24 October 2020
This page lists the pacman commands to install various packages. For general information about pacman usage, see Pacman.
Generally speaking, installing packages through pacman is a little bit easier and more streamlined than apt-get.
System Utilities
Gparted
A helpful hard drive management tool, with a user-friendly GUI.
sudo pacman -S gparted
Extra Hard Drive Utils
Used, for example, in network share mounting.
sudo pacman -S cifs-utils
System Other
DKMS
A packaged used to rebuild system kernels after a kernel update.
Generally needed if you manually upgrade kernels on your machine, or if running as a VM.
sudo pacman -S dkms
General
Chrome
Installs the standard Google Chrome web browser.
Gimp
Gimp is a free image editor tool.
sudo pacman -S gimp
VLC
VLC is an all-encompassing media player. It can handle just about any standardized media format you could throw at it.
sudo pacman -S vlc
LaTeX
For creating and editing pdf files.
Communication
Discord
sudo pacman -S discord
Slack
sudo pacman -S slack-web-jak
General Programming
Git and Gitk
Installed on most distro's by default, but not always. Pretty essential for anything programming. If not present, can be installed with:
sudo pacman -S git gitk
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a free way to create and run Virtual Machines.
Docker
Docker does to software what VirtualMachines do to operating systems.
Essentially, docker creates individual, stand-alone environments (or containers) that allow a set of software to run.
MySQL Workbench
A useful and easy interface for interacting with MySQL servers.
Programming Languages
Php
Laravel
Laravel is a Php based web framework.