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Anyone have Garuda experience?
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How does yay work? Is the workout similar to apt? Update, upgrade, and install commands?
https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html#_operations
Read this over.
To search the AUR and add a program:
yay (desired package) You'll see multiple choices most likely, pick one and it's pretty self-explanatory from there.
To remove program: yay -R (program)
system update/update all packages: yay -Syu
There are a few different package management tools too like Octopi which let you directly browse the AUR by category in a GUI but I think that's pm the basics.
Cool! Thanks for the reply!
What do the -Syu arguments mean? I associate them with the Arch meme of "go ahead and break my system without prompting me first."
S is for sync, which installs packages from the repositories. u is for upgrade, which upgrades out-of-date packages. y causes pacman to refresh the package databases. In short, it upgrades all packages that are out of date. It's a very standard command and not dangerous lol. Btw, with yay just typing in "yay" without -Syu does the same thing, which is convenient
Thank you!
With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?
It's probably wise to check the forums regularly, I had to reinstall the entire OS once (arguably because of NVIDIA) but on more than one occasion it's stopped a update for me because packages were in conflict. So it's nice that there's some foresight on their part.