Pacman Packages

This page lists the pacman commands to install various packages. For general information about pacman usage, see Pacman.

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.

VLC

VLC is an all-encompassing media player. It can handle just about any standardized media format you could throw at it.

LaTeX

For creating and editing pdf files.

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.