However, left unchecked, this cache will grow very large over time. This cache can be very useful if you have to install older packages in an emergency. When pamac installs packages, it keeps a copy of all the old packages you have downloaded. To check to see if there any orphaned packages (packages which are no longer needed) installed, you can use: Pamac update and pamac upgrade are exactly the same. For example, if we wanted to install smplayer and smplayer-themes we could use the command: Once you have identified the packages you wish to install, you can install them with command pamac install. Normal, dark and silver faenza theme for smplayer. The new multimedia player(based on SMPlayer) with clean and elegant UI (mozilla plugin only). If you would like to search both the repos and AUR you add -a like this:Īdvanced front-end for MPlayer/MPV + Patch to disable titlebar in compact mode Media player with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formatsĪs you can see, this will also show you which packages are already installed. For example, to search the repos for packages containing the word smplayer: To search for available packages you can use the command pamac search.

Pamac also includes a fully functional CLI for when you don't have a working GUI or for those that prefer to manage packages that way.

Smplayer website