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'''1. The base-developer group of packages:''' Rather than downloading pre-compiled software packages for installation, you will instead be downloading the instructions for Manjaro to build and compile them on your system. The ''base-devel'' package is required to do this. | '''1. The base-developer group of packages:''' Rather than downloading pre-compiled software packages for installation, you will instead be downloading the instructions for Manjaro to build and compile them on your system. The ''base-devel'' package is required to do this. | ||
'''2. Aur Helper''': ''yay'', ''aurman'', or ''trizen''. These are used to search and download from the AUR, rather like '''[[pacman]]''' is used to search and download from Manjaro's official repositories. Just like ''pacman'' it will also automatically find and download the necessary dependencies for downloaded software as well, provided that the software packages themselves have properly stated which dependencies are needed. Please see [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers this comparison table] of Aur helpers to help you choose one. | '''2. Pamac CLI:''' pamac command line tool | ||
'''3. Aur Helper''': ''yay'', ''aurman'', or ''trizen''. These are used to search and download from the AUR, rather like '''[[pacman]]''' is used to search and download from Manjaro's official repositories. Just like ''pacman'' it will also automatically find and download the necessary dependencies for downloaded software as well, provided that the software packages themselves have properly stated which dependencies are needed. Please see [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers this comparison table] of Aur helpers to help you choose one. | |||
(<u>Note for Octopi users</u>: Octopi can only use ''trizen'' or ''yaourt'' to access the AUR.) | (<u>Note for Octopi users</u>: Octopi can only use ''trizen'' or ''yaourt'' to access the AUR.) |