How to enter password for Pamac in Terminal itself?

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Sometimes I use pamac (CLI) from the dropdown terminal in Manjaro XFCE. When it needs password, it opens another window, and closes the dropdown terminal.
I would have to remove my hands from the keyboard, select the password dialog with the mouse to enter password (it does not automatically get focus as I have enabled focus follows mouse), and then open the dropdown terminal later on.

It would be much simpler if I could enter password in the terminal itself (I can enter password when using sudo pacman -S something, and I want something similar when using pamac in terminal). Is there any way to do that?

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pamac is using polkit and that triggers the authentication dialog. Start reading from here on:

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After reading that post, it seems that there is no way to do this in XFCE right now.

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possible to do the same with pamac …

sudo pamac install something

but, if we want use aur, it’s not possible

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The main reason I use pamac instead of pacman is the AUR :grin:

Is it not possible due to some technical difficulty? Or because it has not been implemented? If it is the latter, I would open an issue in Pamac’s GitLab page.

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no, is not pamac but aur ! it’s not possible to construct aur pkg as root

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepkg#Usage

Running makepkg itself as root is disallowed…

if is for aur, you can use yay (without sudo) :wink:

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I tried paru, it asks for password in terminal itself, even if I install packages from AUR.

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That’s because paru and yay don’t use polkit for authentication. Pamac does.

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I guess there is no way to use authentication in pamac without polkit? (without changing the source code significantly)

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You can uninstall the polkit agent. That would make it ask in the CLI I think.

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A lot of packages depend on polkit. I will just use pamac as it is.

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