It only showed Flatpaks last time I checked.
Discover uses PackageKit as it’s backend and there is no AUR backend for PackageKit.
That being said, it is unsafe to use Discover(or any PackageKit front-end) for managing repo packages on Arch-based distros. This is because Packagekit deliberately doesn’t support manual intervention that is often needed on Arch.
Interesting. Then why doesn’t it show show the apps, and replace the install button with the text of the command?
sudo pacman -S package
That’s right.
The short answer is that Discover cannot show or manage AUR packages on Arch-based systems like CachyOS because it was never designed to, and the Arch Linux community strongly advises against using it for any system package management.
Arch Linux is not configured for installing apps through Discover, only app add-ons…
CachyOS specifically Disables it. Pacman was the only supported package manager… the fact that CachyOS now made Shelly their default is extremely controversial amongst people who understand the system, it’s just like an Alpha software suddenly made default, it’s a bit of an embarrassment (ask CSCS).
It will work with flatpak.
If you need a graphical front end for your package management, then you should think about using Octopi (because Shelly is still an embarrassment).
Generally it’s best to try to understand that Package Management and Distribution is managed by your Linux Distribution, not by the desktop environment.
KDE’s Discover is supported by Neon, Kubuntu, Fedora… and really not by any Arch based distribution (mostly, we just don’t like GUI’s that tend to hide things that work best in the terminal).
Octopi is good though.
Pacseek (a TUI app) is in the AUR and will manage & give you useful information about all the Arch repo and AUR packages.
