pacli

A simple and interactive Bash Frontend for Pacman/Yaourt

pacli is a CLI tool, which provides simple and advanced Pacman and Yaourt commands in an easy to use text interface. Additionally, it offers some Manjaro exclusive commands.

pacli is meant for experienced/intermediate/advanced users, who have basic knowledge of the structure of their Linux system and how Pacman and Yaourt work. Absolute beginners are probably overwhelmed by the amount of choices pacli provides.

It is highly recommended to use an utility, which notifies the user about available updates alongside of pacli. Such a lightweight utility is for example update-notifier.

Screenshots

Home Screen of pacli:

Installing the package "cantata" from the Manjaro repositories:

Removing "qt4" and another package from my system:

Downgrading the package "file-roller":

Looking up what packages on my system depend on "gtk2":

Installation

Installation from the AUR

Install pacli from the AUR.

Then, start pacli in your terminal with:

pacli

Manual Installation

First, make sure all dependencies of pacli are installed on your system:

• pacman
• yaourt
• fzf
• downgrade
• bash
• sudo
• gzip
• git
• update-notifier (optional dependency - will notify the user about available updates)

Then, clone this Github repository to your system with the command:

git clone https://github.com/Manjaro-Pek/pacli

and execute pacli:

cd pacli && chmod +x pacli && ./pacli

Help

pacli Help

Choose the "Help" option in pacli by entering "16" and pressing "ENTER".

This help page explains a little bit about pacli. It also explains every pacli option in detail. If you want to look up which commands pacli uses and understand them, this is the right place for you!

Manjaro Forum

There are 2 threads in the Manjaro forum. Most of the discussion between the developers is going on there:

• Main Thread
• Additional Thread