Experimenting with the live boot of kde manjaro, I searched the repos for favorite thngs and they didn’t show up…I suspect that if I fully installed kde manjaro, this would not happen…amIright?
What is the question?
Meaning what? You cant find any packages?
Or a handful you want are not in the repositories?
Or you know they are in the AUR but you see no AUR packages?
It is still unclear what you mean and what you are asking.
Maybe provide an example?
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What @cscs said.
Your question is so unspecific, it makes little sense.
Try installing Manjaro in a VM, and have a proper play with. Then work out some questions about specifics.
They are in AUR. I suspect it’s just that I was using the live boot rather than the fully installed kde manjaro…Just checking
Pretty sure you can ‘see’ AUR packages from the live ISO.
You would need to enable AUR in pamac for example.
And as the AUR is a third party resource … its ‘real’ interaction is always available:
https://aur.archlinux.org
(and manual management, ie: makepkg is certainly available)
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try reading what I wrote instead of what you are thinking…
We tried. And asked for clarification because it is/was unclear.
I have now ascertained that you mean
While using the live ISO I do not see any AUR packages included in my package manager search results. Is this behavior expected from the live environment, but will disappear upon full install?
But it would be just as much a stretch to interpret the original post in that way as it would be to assume it meant any number of other things. Because it was unclear.
So let me know if I got that right. 
If so - then my previous response is still my answer.
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I use and install code from the AUR quite often… In the preferences section it asks if you are going to use AUR, right. Works like a charm in Manjaro.
Which part of that is your question? What specifically do you wish to know?
You “ascertained” correctly…Perhaps a bit of “chill” would have enabled such a priori. Done with the browbeating,check you later
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Hmmm that’s interesting - I was hoping to answer without reading anything at all.
Perhaps a question might prove more helpful:
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I installed Manjaro KDE and searched the repos for Photoshop. It didn’t show up.
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I searched the repos for ‘Banofee Pie’ and that didn’t show up either…
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I opened the ‘Add/Remove’ software manager, enabled AUR and enabled Flatpak - and I can easily find Firefox, so tell me - why can’t I find ‘favorite things that didn’t show up’ ?
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Not necessarily - the application(s) may not exist - Manjaro share much of the official repo - in the sense they are imported from Arch Repo.
Some applications only exist as custom scripts - what is referred to as Arch User Repository (AUR) thus implying they are created for Arch and may not be compatible with a default Manjaro installation.
Visual Studio Code exists in the official Manjaro repository, listed simply as Code.
pacman -Ss code
sudo pacman -S code
This is the preferred and supported version to install on Manjaro.
I mention this only because the AUR is officially unsupported on Manjaro (and Arch), and you may not have been aware of this package being available in the extra repository.
Cheers.
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No biggie…The packages I searched were the ones I currently use in Manjaro itself. I wanted to check if kde-manjaro “Add/Remove Software” saw them before doing the kde-manjaro full install.
The desktop has no impact on available packages.
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There is no thing like this. We have Pamac and you could alternatively or in addition install Octopi to look for AUR packages for example but as @cscs mentioned this has nothing to do with the DE (e.g. KDE Plasma), you can install them in any DE.
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So you currently use Manjaro.
Whatever packages you use with your current DE, will be available with any other DE on Manjaro.
That is pretty much a constant through out the Linux ecosystem.
The tools for adding and removing Software on Manjaro are…
Pamac (GUI and CLI)
Pacman (CLI only)
Octopi (CLI only)
These tools are available on any Manjaro DE.
Octopi also has a GUI.
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I stand corrected. Thanks, I’ve only ever used it in the CLI.