4
First Look at Shelly, a Modern Graphical Package Manager for Arch Linux (9to5linux.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/archlinux@discuss.tchncs.de
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

I’d do it sudo pacman -Syu firefox in terminal, and you cannot beat that.

While you're not wrong, and while Arch isn't a particularly forgiving distro for newbies, I'm forever hitting up against trying to guess the name of a package that I want to install via a terminal. Firefox is straightforward, but so many bits of software have names that make sense, but that you couldn't necessarily guess.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Why guess? Either use the aforementioned package search or use the internet search engine of your choice and type "arch $name_of_the_software". The matching site for the arch or AUR package is always among the first results.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent