Pacman Packages

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.

sudo pacman -Syu virtualbox

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.

NPM

Originally a tool for NodeJS and various JavaScript libraries, it increasingly seems to be used to store all sorts of different programming packages.

sudo pacman -Syu npm

MySQL Workbench

A useful and easy interface for interacting with MySQL servers.

Programming Languages

Php

Laravel

Laravel is a Php based web framework.

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.

Either install sublime-text-3 from the Software Updater GUI (Note that this is an AUR Package) or install via:

curl -O https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg
sudo pacman-key --add sublimehq-pub.gpg && sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 8A8F901A && rm sublimehq-pub.gpg
echo -e "\n[sublime-text]\nServer = https://download.sublimetext.com/arch/stable/x86_64" | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
sudo pacman -Syu sublime-text

Pycharm

An IDE created specifically for Python. Made by the JetBrains people.

sudo pacman -Syu pycharm-community-edition

VsCode

A lightweight version of VisualStudio. Has support for many different languages.