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 |
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 |
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 |
share-preview |
Preview and debug websites metadata tags for social media share |
textpieces |
Transform text without using random websites |
webfontkitgenerator |
Create @font-face kits easily |
gitg |
GNOME GUI client to view git repositories |
ohmysvg |
SVG optimizer |
playhouse |
A Playground for HTML/CSS/JavaScript |
visual-studio-code-bin |
Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications |
| Package |
Description |
extension-manager |
A native tool for browsing, installing, and managing GNOME Shell Extensions |
newsflash |
Desktop application designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account |
gnome-obfuscate |
Censor private information |
p7zip |
Command-line file archiver with high compression ratio |
teamviewer |
All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings |
NOTE: These messages just inform about active kernel modules that necessitate firmware to operate associated hardware properly, which was not found. If your systems operates as expected with the default firmware package you don't need this.
To get rid of Possibly missing firmware for module: $MODULE warning messages when rebuilding the initrd install this meta package from the AUR:
yay -S mkinitcpio-firmware
