Hi, I noticed that sometimes the GUI for the package manager closes in mid update and I’m wondering what we should be doing in response. I would describe the situation as follows: The shield icon in the KDE System Tray turns from white to red. We click on this and it brings up the package manager. …

[image] Ben: Open a terminal, it’s cool and it doesn’t hide anything at all… edited to reflect @Aragorn ’s comment about system upgrade first with pacman: The risk with that is that sometimes, people have had their desktop crash during an update (though it’s never affected me personally). So i…

[image] Aragorn: Unlike pamac, octopi is not a reinvention of the wheel, but simply a graphical wrapper around pacman, and it is very feature-rich. It’s also a lot more stable, and it’s qt-based, so it integrates much better with Plasma. Thanks! I tried it out and getting an overview of thing…

[image] ilenisaatio: I’m aware that it’s quite possible there are easy and fast ways to get all that info on CLI pacman -Qi <packagename> :wink:

I meant that I often just like to browse what’s available. Much more leasurely with a GUI… doubly so when using a big screen and having a smartphone as a touchpad from the couch.

Had this typed already. Can’t beat the GUI for browsing, but for package management and updating.. Every time I am forced to use a GUI package manager, the first thing I do is bring up the console output. I think Ubuntu still requires 3 clicks to see what is actually going on! I have always like…

[image] ilenisaatio: so far, installing, removing and clearing cache have been enough for me. [image] My Manjaro cheatsheet in a menu form Software Since we advise beginner users to keep a list of commands on file, and it even has such article in the wik…

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! I really appreciate the advice. I will do some reading and give your recommendations a try. :smiley:

That’s good, but if you start using Snapd, best keep it quiet :rofl:

[image] seaforthcastle: Hi, I noticed that sometimes the GUI for the package manager closes in mid update and I’m wondering what we should be doing in response. I would describe the situation as follows: The shield icon in the KDE System Tray turns from white to red. We click on this and it bri…

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