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 
 
 
 
 System Tools 
 
 
 
 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 
 
 
 
 Multimedia 
 
 
 
 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+ 
 
 
 
 Developer Tools 
 
 
 
 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 
 
 
 
 Misc Tools 
 
 
 
 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