Pamac may crash during big updates. Use regular pacman to update and after it finishes, reboot and update the remaining stuff (AUR packages, flatpaks, etc) with pamac. You may want to try shelly as an alternative to pamac (but it’s in the AUR, so…)

[image] Randomname123: Pamac needs some maintenance and bug fixes but the original developer has been AFK for a while Qt version of pamac was last updated in 2022 API updates (6fd6e4bb) · Commits · Applications / pamac-qt · GitLab and the maintainer left that project in 2024 Artem Grinev …

[image] Patrice: For me personally, pacman and yay on the CLI are tools that have never let me down. CLI is… and always will be… OP [dab] [image] tracyanne: I do full system upgrades on this computer (testing) My partner does Full system Upgrades on her computer (stable) I’m seeing…

[image] Randomname123: “Octopi Squared” maybe?? :octopus::octopus: Cutlefish

Yo Aragorn, yeah sorry I must have overlooked that info, i.e. that it’s already a known problem. Am kinda super-busy the last days and this was the first major update issue I had using Manjaro in over 5+ years. Forgive me the oversight :stuck_out_tongue: I will switch to octopi and bookmark this is…

[image] Randomname123: [image] nikgnomic: but Gtk versions are maintained by Manjaro Team for all desktops Packages / extra / pamac · GitLab Wait wut? I am le confused. I remember talking with Aragorn in a different thread that the pamac developer is MIA and that no one has been able to …

[image] Randomname123: the pamac developer is MIA Please do not use military acronyms when referring to other Manjaro community members Forum Rules - How to Post A sincere effort to use modest and proper language and grammar is a sign of respect toward the community that will certainly be …

For the sake of correctnes, pamac-gtk (4) works on xfce. There is a small difference in the search function but the main difference is just styling and theme - by default uses adwaita theme, one can force it to use the matcha theme though, but it doesn’t look that good. But works fine. At least i di…

[image] Teo: For the sake of correctnes, pamac-gtk (4) works on xfce. It does now, yes. And it’ll also work on Plasma. However, gtk4 insists on client-side window decorations, and at the time, the Xfce-native window manager did not fully support that yet. Plasma did, but it didn’t like it …

In my view, the ongoing problems with pamac are a major reason why Manjaro currently gives the impression of stagnation. I think it’s urgently necessary to either persuade those previously responsible to continue the pamac project or — since this has apparently not yet been achieved — to immediatel…

[image] fumum_vendidi: I think it’s urgently necessary to either persuade those previously responsible to continue the pamac project or — since this has apparently not yet been achieved — to immediately place the development of pamac or a corresponding fork in other, suitable hands. This will…

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