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.

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.