New to Manjaro, and I’ve been loving it. But I have a question about updating. I’ve been updating by doing ‘sudo pacman -Syu’ in terminal. But I was just reading through the wiki and it talks about Pamac, and for updating through CLi to use the ‘pamac upgrade’ command.
So which one should I be using? I know with the pamac way I can add -a to it to update the AUR too. I’m sure there’s a way with pacman to do this as well I just haven’t bothered to look.
Also…should I be installing software with the pamac or pacman command? Just a tad confused on it all, coming from Ubuntu, where there was one repo and one command.
Anyways, a little help for this Manjaro noob would be greatly appreciated.
Either one.
I prefer pacman and update as you described. Never had breakage.
Some people like pamac … especially either its GUI or ‘more intelligible’ command-line syntax.
Between the two for upgrades it should be relatively the same. The same can be said for installing packages. Though pamac has built-in AUR support, and if you use pacman you need an AUR-helper to access it (like paru or yay).
So really … its up to you. I like pacman, so I use that exclusively.