ArcoLinux RepoXPlorer

A GTK Python application which lets you explore Arch packages from only the ArcoLinux Pacman repositories.

The following repositories are explorable:

• arcolinux_repo
• arcolinux_repo_3party
• arcolinux_repo_xlarge
• arcolinux_repo_testing

Main Window

• Any installed packages with pending updates will be highlighted
• Double clicking a package name displays more details
• Clicking Refresh runs a pacman -Sy to synchronize the pacman repositories and bring in the latest package details

Package Details Window

Download option

The download package option lets you download the associated .zst package file to disk for offline installations.

This is stored inside $HOME/repoxp/packages

Files view

Searching

Fuzzy searching based on entered string.

Requirements

• OS: Arch Linux only
• Python 3.11 or above
• GTK3
• Pacman configured to use ArcoLinux repositories
• Polkit running and configured correctly on system

This application requires sudo access to run Pacman commands successfully.

Building the package

mkdir /tmp/arcolinux-repo-explorer && cd /tmp/arcolinux-repo-explorer
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DeltaCopy/arcolinux-repo-explorer/main/PKGBUILD
makepkg -si

If those steps fail use the offline method described below.

Offline installation method

wget https://github.com/DeltaCopy/arcolinux-repo-explorer/releases/download/release-23-09-07/arcolinux-repo-explorer-23.09-07-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U arcolinux-repo-explorer-23.09-07-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

This will install the package into /usr/share/repoxp

Running

Open a terminal and type:

repoxp