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Pamac VS Portage

Compare Pamac VS Portage and see what are their differences

Pamac logo Pamac

Graphical Package Manager for Manjaro Linux (based on libalpm).

Portage logo Portage

Portage is source-based package manager used by Gentoo and its descendants. It controls all process from fetching source through building it, installing into clean environment to "merging" with already installed software.
  • Pamac Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-23
  • Portage Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

Pamac videos

Install Package Manager in Arch Linux Pamac-AUR, Pamac-classic or Octopi

Portage videos

Nursing video 2 portage learning, prerequisite courses

More videos:

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Pamac and Portage)
Work Music
100 100%
0% 0
Package Manager
36 36%
64% 64
Focus Music
100 100%
0% 0
Developer Tools
0 0%
100% 100

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pamac and Portage, you can also consider the following products

Yay - Yay is an AUR helper written in go, based on the design of yaourt, apacman and pacaur.

Conda - Binary package manager with support for environments.

paru - An AUR helper written in Rust and based on the design of yay. It aims to be your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with minimal interaction.

pkgsrc - pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.

Octopi - Powerful Pacman (GUI | frontend) written in Qt

Pacman - Pacman was developed to be the package manager for Arch Linux, and is also used by KDE-focused Chakra Linux.