Pamac-classic

A graphical package manager for pacman

Features:

• Alpm bindings for Vala
• A DBus daemon to perform every tasks with root access using polkit to check authorizations
• A Gtk3 Package Manager
• A Gtk3 Updates Manager
• A Tray icon with configurable periodic refresh and updates notifications
• Complete AUR support:
  • Multiple words search capability
  • Enable/Disable check updates from AUR
  • Build and update AUR packages

How to build

Requirements

• GTK+: 3.0
• GIO: 2.0
• GLib: 2.38
• GObject: 2.0
• Json-Glib: 1.0
• libalpm
• libcurl
• LibSoup: 2.4
• polkit-gobject-1
• libnotify
• vte: 2.91
• appindicator-gtk3 (optional to build KDE tray icon)
• CMake
• Vala: 0.38
• AutoVala: 1.2.0 (optional to regenerate CMake and Meson files)

Using CMake with GNU Make

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
make
make install

Extra build flags

• -DDISABLE_AUR=ON (to disable AUR in Pamac)
• -DKDE_TRAY=ON (to build kde tray icon instead of gtk tray icon)
• -DENABLE_UPDATE_ICON=ON (to install the update desktop entry)
• -DICON_UPDATE=OFF (to disable updating the icon cache)
• -DENABLE_HAMBURGER=ON (to build with the classic hamburger menu)

Using CMake with Ninja

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. \
    -GNinja
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
ninja
ninja install

Extra build flags

• -DDISABLE_AUR=ON (to disable AUR in Pamac)
• -DKDE_TRAY=ON (to build kde tray icon instead of gtk tray icon)
• -DENABLE_UPDATE_ICON=ON (to install the update desktop entry)
• -DICON_UPDATE=OFF (to disable updating the icon cache)
• -DENABLE_HAMBURGER=ON (to build with the classic hamburger menu)

Using Meson with Ninja

mkdir build
cd build
meson \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc
ninja
ninja install

Extra build flags

• -DDISABLE_AUR=ON (to disable AUR in Pamac)
• -DKDE_TRAY=ON (to build kde tray icon instead of gtk tray icon)
• -DENABLE_UPDATE_ICON=ON (to install the update desktop entry)
• -DICON_UPDATE=OFF (to disable updating the icon cache)
• -DENABLE_HAMBURGER=ON (to build with the classic hamburger menu)

Using configure wrapper

The configure script is just a wrapper for CMake, in the background the build process is the same as using CMake with GNU Make.

./configure --prefix=/usr \
	--libdir=/usr/lib \
	--sysconfdir=/etc
make
make install

Extra configure options

• --disable-aur (to disable Aur in Pamac)
• --enable-kde-tray (to build kde tray icon instead of gtk tray icon)
• --enable-update-desktop (to install the update desktop entry)
• --disable-icon-update (to disable updating the icon cache)
• --enable-hamburger (to build with the classic hamburger menu)