06-08-2023, 07:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-08-2023, 07:45 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
The best working frontend I found is the Pamac GTK frontend. But it is not packaged in Arch Linux, only in AUR and in third-party repositories. You can find it, e.g., in the Archdroid repository: https://archdroid.org/packages/pamac-aur/.
Of course, you could theoretically also get it from Manjaro (which is the upstream for Pamac), but the Manjaro repositories also mirror all the Arch packages, so it is not a good idea to enable those repositories on Arch. (Unless you want to disable the Arch ones and convert the installation to a Manjaro installation, but that is something neither Arch nor Manjaro support, so I do not recommend attempting that.) You are better off using a small add-on repository for Arch such as Archdroid.
Otherwise, I can only recommend the pacman CLI. Any PackageKit frontend (KDE/Plasma Discover, GNOME Software, etc.) is going to work poorly.
Of course, you could theoretically also get it from Manjaro (which is the upstream for Pamac), but the Manjaro repositories also mirror all the Arch packages, so it is not a good idea to enable those repositories on Arch. (Unless you want to disable the Arch ones and convert the installation to a Manjaro installation, but that is something neither Arch nor Manjaro support, so I do not recommend attempting that.) You are better off using a small add-on repository for Arch such as Archdroid.
Otherwise, I can only recommend the pacman CLI. Any PackageKit frontend (KDE/Plasma Discover, GNOME Software, etc.) is going to work poorly.