Additional Packages
Additional packages one might find useful to have installed on their system
File System Utilities
| File system |
Package |
Creation command |
Description |
| Btrfs |
btrfs-progs |
mkfs.btrfs |
Btrfs filesystem utilities |
| VFAT |
dosfstools |
mkfs.fat |
DOS filesystem utilities |
| exFAT |
exfatprogs |
mkfs.exfat |
exFAT filesystem userspace utilities for the Linux Kernel exfat driver |
| F2FS |
f2fs-tools |
mkfs.f2fs |
Tools for Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS) |
| ext4 |
e2fsprogs |
mkfs.ext4 |
Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities |
| HFS/HFS+ |
hfsprogs (AUR) |
mkfs.hfsplus |
User space utils to create and check Apple HFS/HFS+ filesystem |
| JFS |
jfsutils |
mkfs.jfs |
JFS filesystem utilities |
| NILFS2 |
nilfs-utils |
mkfs.nilfs2 |
A log-structured file system supporting continuous snapshotting |
| NTFS |
ntfs-3g |
mkfs.ntfs |
NTFS filesystem driver and utilities |
| ReiserFS |
reiserfsprogs |
mkfs.reiserfs |
Reiserfs utilities |
| UDF |
udftools |
mkfs.udf |
Linux tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives |
| XFS |
xfsprogs |
mkfs.xfs |
XFS filesystem utilities |
| Package |
Description |
fwupd |
Simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware |
htop |
Interactive process viewer |
impression |
A straight-forward modern application to create bootable drives. |
libimobiledevice |
Library to communicate with services on iOS devices using native protocols |
lshw |
A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine |
man-db |
A utility for reading man pages |
power-profiles-daemon |
Makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus |
radeontop |
View AMD GPU utilization for total activity percent and individual blocks |
| Package |
Description |
aegisub |
A general-purpose subtitle editor with ASS/SSA support |
amberol |
Plays music, and nothing else |
blanket |
Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds |
eartag |
Simple music tag editor |
handbrake |
Multithreaded video transcoder |
identity |
Compare multiple versions of an image or video |
makemkv |
DVD and Blu-ray to MKV converter |
mediainfo-gui |
Supplies technical and tag information about media files |
mousai |
Simple application for identifying songs |
paleta |
Extract the dominant colors from any image |
soundconverter |
A simple sound converter application for GNOME |
tube-converter |
An easy-to-use video downloader |
video-trimmer |
Trim videos quickly |
Productivity
| Package |
Description |
apostrophe |
A distraction free Markdown editor for GNU/Linux made with GTK+ |
| Package |
Description |
devtoolbox |
Development tools at your fingertips |
escambo |
An HTTP-based APIs test application for GNOME |
gitg |
GNOME GUI client to view git repositories |
ohmysvg |
SVG optimizer |
playhouse |
A Playground for HTML/CSS/JavaScript |
share-preview |
Preview and debug websites metadata tags for social media share |
textpieces |
Transform text without using random websites |
visual-studio-code-bin |
Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications |
webfontkitgenerator |
Create @font-face kits easily |
| Package |
Description |
extension-manager |
A native tool for browsing, installing, and managing GNOME Shell Extensions |
gnome-obfuscate |
Censor private information |
newsflash |
Desktop application designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account |
p7zip |
Command-line file archiver with high compression ratio |
teamviewer |
All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings |
