I’m planning to install Arch Linux for the first time. Any recommendations on setup, must-have applications, or best practices? Also, what’s something you wish you knew before switching to Arch?

  • @[email protected]
    1•9 hours ago

    Um. Ya, I guess. Ok.

    First, how do you keep that package up to date?

    Real question though is, do you really think that is better than “yay -S AURpackagehere” or even “paru AURpackagehere”?

    • @9tr6gyp3
      1•8 hours ago

      To update the package, you use git to pull the latest branch code and repeat the process. You should double check if there are dependency changes though.

      Like I said, its easier with a pacman wrapper, but not necessary.

      • @[email protected]
        1•6 hours ago

        Yes. Thank you. My question (or point) was how you know that the package needs to be updated? As you point out, I need to do that for dependencies as well.

        You are certainly correct though. You can pull AUR packages and build them without yay or paru.

        • @9tr6gyp3
          1•5 hours ago

          Per the Arch Wiki:

          The AUR is unsupported, so any packages you install are your responsibility to update, not pacman’s. If packages in the official repositories are updated, you will need to rebuild any AUR packages that depend on those libraries.

          Arch Wiki - Arch User Repository