HELP: CachyOS Package Installer

This help is for CachyOS Package Installer. The maintains a version of “Popular Applications” tab as a standalone app.

It is listed in the Favorites of Whisker menu by default; but if that has been removed, click Start menu ≻ System ≻ CachyOS Package installer and provide the root password.

Popular Applications

Expand the categories with the little arrow to see the packages available; more information (including screenshots where possible) is available by clicking on the small information icon.
The Search box will parse application names and display matches in the tree.
Check those that you want, and click Install.
The terminal output will be displayed as first the repos are updated and then your packages are installed.
If a package is already installed, you will have the option to uninstall or reinstall.
If there are problems, there is a log at /var/log/cachyospi.log and /var/log/cachyospi.log.old for you to post in the forum.

Repo

This tab gives you access to the full catalog of apps available for CachyOS Linux. It has a limited feature set and is not a replacement for a full package manager like the default Synaptic. Consider the CachyOS PackageInstaller supplementary to Synaptic.

Packages then can be manipulated in similar fashion to the Popular Applications Tab.

Flatpaks

Flatpaks are a type of package that has all the dependencies included that’s supposed to work on multiple Linux distributions.

They are not perfect: some might not work well, might not follow your theme, etc.
The first flatpak that you install will probably pull a huge runtime, so it will take a long time to download and will take a lot of space on your harddrive (probably around 2GB), but the next flatpak will most likely be able to use that runtime, so it gets a bit better after you install a couple of flatpaks.
By default, the “flathub” remote “repo” is used by default. Others can be added via the Advanced dialog.
You can also install flatpaks via ref files via the Advanced dialog