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Generally speaking, installing packages through pacman is a little bit easier and more streamlined than apt-get. | Generally speaking, installing packages through pacman is a little bit easier and more streamlined than apt-get. | ||
Note that some of the below packages are considered "AUR packages". See [[Pacman#Enabling AUR Packages | Enabling AUR Packages]] for details. | |||
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=== Gparted === | === Gparted === | ||
A helpful hard drive management tool, with a user-friendly GUI. | A helpful hard drive management tool, with a user-friendly GUI. | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu gparted | ||
=== Extra Hard Drive Utils === | === Extra Hard Drive Utils === | ||
Used, for example, in network share mounting. | Used, for example, in network share mounting. | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu cifs-utils | ||
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A packaged used to rebuild system kernels after a kernel update.<br> | A packaged used to rebuild system kernels after a kernel update.<br> | ||
Generally needed if you manually upgrade kernels on your machine, or if running as a VM. | Generally needed if you manually upgrade kernels on your machine, or if running as a VM. | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu dkms | ||
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=== Chrome === | === Chrome === | ||
Installs the standard Google Chrome web browser. | Installs the standard Google Chrome web browser. | ||
Note that his is an [[Pacman#Enabling AUR Packages | AUR Package]]. | |||
=== Gimp === | === Gimp === | ||
Gimp is a free image editor tool. | Gimp is a free image editor tool. | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu 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 - | sudo pacman -Syu vlc | ||
=== LaTeX === | === LaTeX === | ||
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=== Discord === | === Discord === | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu discord | ||
=== Slack === | === Slack === | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu slack-web-jak | ||
== General Programming == | == General Programming == | ||
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=== Git and Gitk === | === 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: | Installed on most distro's by default, but not always. Pretty essential for anything programming. If not present, can be installed with: | ||
sudo pacman - | sudo pacman -Syu git gitk | ||
=== VirtualBox === | === VirtualBox === | ||
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=== Sublime Text === | === Sublime Text === | ||
A text editor that, by itself, isn't very impressive. But it has a lot of support for extensions and customization, which make it as good as most standard IDE's. | |||
Note that this is an [[Pacman#Enabling AUR Packages | AUR Package]]. | |||
=== Pycharm === | === Pycharm === | ||
=== VsCode === | === VsCode === | ||
A lightweight version of VisualStudio. Has support for many different languages. | |||
Revision as of 02:06, 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.
Note that some of the below packages are considered "AUR packages". See Enabling AUR Packages for details.
System Utilities
Gparted
A helpful hard drive management tool, with a user-friendly GUI.
sudo pacman -Syu gparted
Extra Hard Drive Utils
Used, for example, in network share mounting.
sudo pacman -Syu 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 -Syu dkms
General
Chrome
Installs the standard Google Chrome web browser.
Note that his is an AUR Package.
Gimp
Gimp is a free image editor tool.
sudo pacman -Syu 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 -Syu vlc
LaTeX
For creating and editing pdf files.
Communication
Discord
sudo pacman -Syu discord
Slack
sudo pacman -Syu 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 -Syu 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.
Python
Programming IDEs
Sublime Text
A text editor that, by itself, isn't very impressive. But it has a lot of support for extensions and customization, which make it as good as most standard IDE's.
Note that this is an AUR Package.
Pycharm
VsCode
A lightweight version of VisualStudio. Has support for many different languages.